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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]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Sun, Mar 9 09:41 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 09:01 PM:

The main page does exactly that: It describes the original finalized version by Ralph Betza, and nothing else. The only appearance of non-standard armies is the See also: in the right sidebar. This one is a little out-of-date, I'm afraid. The armies mentioned by HaruN Y are definitely worth adding, also the second Allstars army by Ralph Betza should be added.

There are more armies, maybe the Fearful Fairies (my own creation) is worth mentioning. The English Wikipedia also describes Hoppel-Poppel under Chess with Different Armies: Although never designed to be played as such, the army matches the strength of the original FIDEs almost perfectly.

Links:

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/fearful-fairies

https://www.chessvariants.com/diffmove.dir/hoppel-poppel.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_with_different_armies