Triangular chess

This article is about chess variants with triangular cells. For Dekle's variants with triangular cells, see 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.^[1][2] 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.^{[3][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,^[4][5] took out a patent for a three-person variant of triangular chess on a hexagonal board in 2009.^[6]

See also

• Hexagonal chess
• Trishogi—a shogi variant with triangular cells

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)

Bibliography

• Interesting Engineering (2017). "Three Player Chess is Just as Crazy As it Sounds". InterestingEngineering.com. Retrieved 25 November 2018. Cited in: [1].
• Keller, Michael, ed. (June 1991). "A Panorama of Chess Variants". World Game Review. No. 10. Michael Keller. ISSN 1041-0546.
• Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.
• Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John (ed.). The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1.
• Sohail, Umer (2016). "Three Player Chess Is Now A Reality". WonderfulEngineering.com. Retrieved 25 November 2018.