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More commonly known as Wellisch's Hexagonal Chess, [14] Three-Handed Hexagonal Chess was published by Siegmund Wellisch in 1912. [15] The board is a regular hexagon with sides of length 6, which consists of 91 cells; however, it is oriented horizontally. Each side has eight pawns, three knights, two rooks, one queen, and one king. There are no ...
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]
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 ...
The knight can move up or down one board and two squares orthogonally, or up or down two boards and one square orthogonally. As in standard chess, the knight is the only piece able to move past intervening pieces. The bishop can move up or down one or two boards, as long as it also moves the same number of squares in a diagonal direction.
The Fischer random chess numbering scheme can be shown in the form of a simple two-tables representation. Also a direct derivation of starting arrays exists for any given number from 0 to 959. This mapping of starting arrays and numbers stems from Reinhard Scharnagl and is now used worldwide for Fischer random chess.
The standard rules of chess apply except in the following cases: [1]. The game is played on a 16×16 board with the starting position shown above. An unmoved pawn can move one step, up to the middle of the board (in the case of the 16×16 board, the eighth rank), or anything in between.
Along with the standard chess pieces, Duchess includes two common Fairy Chess pieces. These are the Princess (chess) and the Empress (chess). In addition, it introduces a new piece called the Wizard, which allow a piece in the surrounding 8 squares (or itself) to teleport to an unoccupied square around a Wizard of the same team.