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Dunsany's chess starting setup
Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game,[1] is an asymmetric chess variant in which Black has the standard chess army and White has 32 pawns. This game was invented by Lord Dunsany in 1942. It was published the same year in Fairy Chess Review (August issue)[1] and in Joseph Boyer's Nouveaux Jeux d'Echecs Non-orthodoxes.[2]
A similar game is Horde chess.
- ^ a b Pritchard, D. B. (1994). "Dunsany's Game". The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. p. 97. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.
- ^ Keller, Michael, ed. (June 1991). "A Panorama of Chess Variants". World Game Review. No. 10. Michael Keller. ISSN 1041-0546.