Board games
jeu de Dunsany
jeu de Dunsany is a board game released in 1942. It is played with 2 players and in about 20 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 20
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The box
- Designer
- Lord Dunsany
- Year of release
- 1942
- Also known as
- Dunsany's game · Dunsany's chess
About the game
Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game, 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) and in Joseph Boyer's Nouveaux Jeux d'Echecs Non-orthodoxes. A similar game is Horde chess.Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.