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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-man chess gameboard and starting position [a] 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.
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.
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.
better chess figures (Chess Merida Unicode) and colors: 12:30, 23 July 2013: 625 × 685 (226 KB) Nl74: small fixes (white cross of black bishop, remove thin outer border within outer hexagons) 11:38, 23 July 2013: 625 × 685 (167 KB) Nl74: light version: 11:09, 23 July 2013: 625 × 685 (167 KB) Nl74
Rhombic chess is a chess variant for two players created by Tony Paletta in 1980. [1] [2] The gameboard has an overall hexagonal shape and comprises 72 rhombi in three alternating colors. Each player commands a full set of standard chess pieces. The game was first published in Chess Spectrum Newsletter 2 by the inventor.
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 broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").