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Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Derek Nalls wrote on Sun, Apr 5, 2015 12:25 AM UTC:BelowAverage ★★
Despite their intractability (in most cases), it is true (as an existential theorem) for all turn-based, two-player chess variants that, with perfect play, a decisive, game-winning advantage exists for either white or black.  Furthermore, this advantage will be amplified where the armies are unequal and/or asymmetrical.  The fact that the problem fails to "bite us" because the quality of play needed to reveal it is out of reach for both human or state-of-the-art AI players does not render it insignificant.  It just has little practical effect.