Triangular chess

This article is about chess variants with triangular cells. For Dekle's variants with triangular cells, see Triangular Chess.

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 invented by George R. Dekle, Sr. in 1986. Dekle made another variation which is called Tri-Chess. These two two-player games were included in World Game Review No. 10 edited by Michael Keller.

Dekle made another three handed version of triangular chess which is called Tri-Chess. Three handed Tri-chess uses fairy pieces.

Three-player chess by Ilshat Tagiev (click image for extensive pdf rules tutorial)

Russian Ilshat Tagiev took out a patent for three-person variant of triangular chess on a hexagonal board.

See Also

• Three-player chess
• Hexagonal chess
• Trishogi—a shogi variant with triangular cells

References

Bibliography

• Keller, Michael, ed. (June 1991). "A Panorama of Chess Variants". World Game Review. No. 10. Michael Keller. ISSN 1041-0546. {{cite magazine}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John (ed.). The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)