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.

Triangular Chess and Tri-Chess gameboard and starting position

The best known is a chess variant for two players, Triangular Chess, invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986.^[1][2] 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.^{[3][page needed][non-primary source needed]}

Guide to Ilshat Tagiev's three-player chess (click image for extensive pdf rules tutorial) (in Russian)

Russian Ilshat Tagiev, who introduced a "neutrality rule" to three-player chess in the mid-2000s,^[4][5] took out a patent for a three-person variant of triangular chess on a hexagonal board in 2009.^[6]

See also

• Hexagonal chess
• Trishogi—a shogi variant with triangular cells