Triangular chess

Triangular Chess and Tri-Chess gameboard and starting position

Triangular chess refers to a group of chess variants played on boards composed of triangular cells.

The best known is a chess variant for two players, Triangular Chess, invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986. Dekle made another variation including fairy pieces which is called Tri-Chess. These two two-player games were included in World Game Review No. 10 edited by Michael Keller.[page needed][non-primary source needed]

Guide to Ilshat Tagiev's three-player chess (click image for extensive pdf rules tutorial) (in Russian)

Russian Ilshat Tagiev, who introduced a "neutrality rule" to three-player chess in the mid-2000s, took out a patent for a three-person variant of triangular chess on a hexagonal board in 2009.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pritchard (1994), pp. 321–22
  2. ↑ Pritchard (2007), p. 213
  3. ↑ Keller (1991)
  4. ↑ Sohail (2016)
  5. ↑ Interesting Engineering (2017)
  6. ↑ Patent number 86486 – Шахматная игра (Chess game) – Ilshat Tagiev Archived 2018-11-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

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