Editing List of chess variants (section)

==== Unequal armies ====
In these variants, White and Black do not necessarily begin with the same quantities of each piece type (for example, White may begin with more pawns than Black).
* '''[[Dunsany's Chess]]''' (and the similar '''Horde chess'''): One side has standard chess pieces, and the other side has 32 pawns.
* '''[[Chess handicap|Handicap chess]]''' (or '''Chess with odds''') [multivariant]: Variations to equalise chances of players with different strength.
* '''Peasants' Revolt''': White has a king and eight pawns (the peasants) against Black's king, pawn, and four knights (the nobles). Black has the advantage. To narrow the contest, the game has also been played with three knights (on b8, c8, and g8) instead of four. By R. L. Frey (1947).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/peasantrevolt.html |title=Peasant Revolt |last=Whelan |first=George |publisher=[[The Chess Variant Pages]] |date=2003-03-10 |access-date=2014-01-21 |archive-date=2014-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204041855/http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/peasantrevolt.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfnp|Pritchard|2007|p=76}}
* '''Sixteen Pawns''': White plays without their queen, but chooses where on the third and fourth ranks to place eight extra pawns. By [[Legall de Kermeur]] (18th century). [[Alexandre Deschapelles]] and [[Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais]] later established that eight extra pawns favour White too much, and hence played the game with only five, six, or seven extra pawns for White instead.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chessvariants.com/unequal.dir/16pawns.html | title=Sixteen Pawns | access-date=2017-12-22 | archive-date=2017-12-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105938/http://www.chessvariants.com/unequal.dir/16pawns.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* '''[[Really Bad Chess]]''': A [[mobile video game]] by [[Zach Gage]]; Each player has one king and fifteen other pieces selected at random. 
* '''Weak!''': White has the usual pieces, Black has one king, seven knights, and sixteen pawns. This game was played at a Columbia University chess club in the 1960s.<ref>[http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/weak.html Weak!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060307011958/http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/weak.html |date=2006-03-07 }} by [[Hans Bodlaender]]</ref>

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