Triangular chess
{{Short description|Group of chess variants}}
{{About|chess variants with triangular cells|Dekle's variants with triangular cells|Triangular Chess}}
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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, Triangular Chess, invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986.{{sfnp|Pritchard|1994|pp=321–22|ps=}}{{sfnp|Pritchard|2007|p=213|ps=}} Dekle made another variation including fairy pieces which is called Tri-Chess. These two two-player games were included in World Game Review No. 10 edited by Michael Keller.{{sfnp|Keller|1991|ps=}}{{page missing|date=November 2018}}{{Primary source inline|date=November 2018}}
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Russian Ilshat Tagiev, who introduced a "neutrality rule" to three-player chess in the mid-2000s,{{sfnp|Sohail|2016|ps=}}{{sfnp|Interesting Engineering|2017|ps=}} took out a patent for a three-person variant of triangular chess on a hexagonal board in 2009.[http://www.bankpatentov.ru/node/16823 Patent number 86486 – Шахматная игра (Chess game) – Ilshat Tagiev] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125115655/http://www.bankpatentov.ru/node/16823 |date=2018-11-25 }} {{in lang|ru}}
See also
- Hexagonal chess
- Trishogi—a shogi variant with triangular cells
References
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Bibliography
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|title=Three Player Chess is Just as Crazy As it Sounds
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|editor-last=Keller
|editor-first=Michael
|date=June 1991
|title=A Panorama of Chess Variants
|publisher=Michael Keller
|magazine=World Game Review
|issue=10
|issn=1041-0546
}}
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|first=D. B.
|year=1994
|authorlink=David Pritchard (chess player)
|title=The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
|publisher=Games & Puzzles Publications
|isbn=0-9524142-0-1
}}
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|last=Pritchard
|first=D. B.
|year=2007
|authorlink=David Pritchard (chess player)
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|editor-first=John
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|publisher=John Beasley
|isbn=978-0-9555168-0-1
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