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'Three-handed chess' is a family of chess variants specially designed to be played by three people.[1] There are many variations of three-handed chess. They usually use some non-standard board, for example, hexagonal or three-sided board connected in the middle in a special way.
Many three player chess variants use hexagonal board. Pieces move usually as in one of versions of hexagonal chess:
★ 'Chesh' by Gianluca Moro.
★ 'Chexs' by Stephen P. Kennedy.
★ 'Echexs' by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
★ 'HEXChess': commercial chess variant by HEXchess Inc.
Often a special three-sided board is used:
★ 'Self's variant': by Hency J. Self (1894).
★ 'Three player chess:' by Robert Zubrin (1972). In this game the winner is whoever is first to checkmate one of the other two players. If more than one player's pieces contribute to a checkmate, the winner is whoever makes the final move that causes a checkmate.
★ 'Triple chess': chess board is extended with 8x3 rectangles on 3 sides. This game is invented by Philip Marinelli in 1722.
★ 'Triochess' (1975).
★ 'Waider's game': by Waider (1837).
Besides hexagonal and three-sided boards some other board forms were tried:
★ '3-color chess': uses a special three-dimensional board or can be used with three colored boards.
★ '3-man chess': uses round board.
★ 'Orwell chess': cylindrical board is used, similar to cylinder chess.
★ Sannin shogi, a three-handed shogi variant played on a hexagonal board.
1. Popular Chess Variants, Pritchard, D., , , Bastford Chess Books, 2000, ISBN 0-7134-8578-7
★ Three player chess.
★ Chess for three.
| Contents |
| Hexagonal board |
| Three-sided board |
| Other boards |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
Hexagonal board
Many three player chess variants use hexagonal board. Pieces move usually as in one of versions of hexagonal chess:
★ 'Chesh' by Gianluca Moro.
★ 'Chexs' by Stephen P. Kennedy.
★ 'Echexs' by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
★ 'HEXChess': commercial chess variant by HEXchess Inc.
Three-sided board
Often a special three-sided board is used:
★ 'Self's variant': by Hency J. Self (1894).
★ 'Three player chess:' by Robert Zubrin (1972). In this game the winner is whoever is first to checkmate one of the other two players. If more than one player's pieces contribute to a checkmate, the winner is whoever makes the final move that causes a checkmate.
★ 'Triple chess': chess board is extended with 8x3 rectangles on 3 sides. This game is invented by Philip Marinelli in 1722.
★ 'Triochess' (1975).
★ 'Waider's game': by Waider (1837).
Other boards
Besides hexagonal and three-sided boards some other board forms were tried:
★ '3-color chess': uses a special three-dimensional board or can be used with three colored boards.
★ '3-man chess': uses round board.
★ 'Orwell chess': cylindrical board is used, similar to cylinder chess.
See also
★ Sannin shogi, a three-handed shogi variant played on a hexagonal board.
References
1. Popular Chess Variants, Pritchard, D., , , Bastford Chess Books, 2000, ISBN 0-7134-8578-7
External links
★ Three player chess.
★ Chess for three.
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