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Spartan Chess. A game with unequal armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 08:31 AM UTC:
Joe Joyce wrote in this thread:

> Jeremy Good expressed the wish for totally different armies, including 
> pawns, in our conversations on shatranj-style armies, where he wanted 
> for a long time to dump the knight from the shatranj CwDA. And someone
> has tried Chess with Different Pawns, but I cannot remember where.

In fact, there is an old experimental army for Chess with different armies, namely Ralph Betza's Jovian army, see

   http://www.chessvariants.org/d.betza/chessvar/cvda/wow-jup.html

This army may be an interesting opponent to the Spartans.