Odds Chess is a way of balancing the game when there’s a difference in skill between players. With odds in their favor, the weaker player has a better chance of playing against their opponent.
Below you can see the genius Paul Morphy defeating chess problemist and author Napoleon Marache in an Odds game in 1859. Morphy gave the 1856 New York Chess Club Cup champion queen’s knight odds and still managed to checkmate him. (引文)