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Chess for three, which summarily describes Wellisch' three-player chess and dozens of other three-player chess variants (triangular, hexagonal, quadrilateral, and others) Green Chess is a free online chess portal where you can play the Gliński, McCooey, Shafran, Brusky and de Vasa variations in a turn by turn manner
Shafran's hexagonal chess: Chess on an irregular hex board of 70 cells. Same as Gliński's Hexagonal Chess, but differs by starting position, pawn first-move options, pawns capturing forward diagonally, and castling. Invented by Grigorevich Shafran (1939). Strozewski's hexagonal chess: Chess on a square-shaped board of 81 hex cells. King and ...
Three-player chess (also known as three-handed, three-man, or three-way chess) is a family of chess variants specially designed for three players. [1] Many variations of three-player chess have been devised. They usually use a non-standard board, for example, a hexagonal or three-sided board that connects the center cells in a special way. The ...
This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system. The chess openings are categorised into five ...
ICCF numeric notation is the official chess notation system of the International Correspondence Chess Federation.The system was devised for use in international correspondence chess to avoid the potential confusion of using algebraic notation, as the chess pieces have different abbreviations depending on language.
Three-man chess is a chess variant for three players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1984. [1] [2] The game is played on a hexagonal board comprising 96 quadrilateral cells. Each player controls a standard army of chess pieces. Three-man chess was included in World Game Review No. 10 edited by Michael Keller. [3]
Gliński's hexagonal chess utilises a board with 91 hexagonal spaces of three different colours. One innovation of the 13th century was the cylindrical board for use in cylinder chess. [12] The board used for the Persian Tamerlane chess is one of the first recorded variant chessboards, with eleven columns by ten rows along with two citadels.
The fact that there are hexagonal forms of chess, boards with few spaces, and 3-player versions of chess doesn't seem to be worth calling out here, unless: (a) a lists of variants is added under the heading, (b) a link to a main article covering the category is added under the heading.