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    Triangular chess is a chess variant for two players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986. The game is played on a hexagon-shaped gameboard comprising...
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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...
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    in the catalogue. The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules of the game. The rules can be grouped...
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    Three-man chess is a chess variant for three players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1984. The game is played on a hexagonal board comprising 96 quadrilateral...
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    Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...
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    Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...
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  • Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...
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  • not triangular or quadrilateral. 3 Man Chess: Uses a circular board. Some variants incorporate fairy chess pieces in addition to standard chess pieces...
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    Sr. in 1986. The game is played on a board comprising 150 triangular cells. The standard chess pieces are present, minus the queens, and plus the chancellor...
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    A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International"...
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  • Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
    article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...
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  • Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
    square grid, such as masonic chess, triangular chess, Shafran's and Brusky's hexagonal chess, and millennium 3D chess. In 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel...
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    Xiangqi (redirect from Chinese chess)
    commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the...
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    Makruk (redirect from Thai Chess)
    chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy board game that is descended from the 6th-century Indian game...
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  • A fairy chess piece is a game piece that is not in regular chess but appears in an alternate version of chess with different rules. Such an alternate...
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  • resembling the Western game Stratego. The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard...
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    initiation". Enochian chess was created by William Wynn Westcott, one of the three founders of the Golden Dawn, but the rules of the game were probably never...
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    Janggi (redirect from Korean chess)
    sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...
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    Trishogi (redirect from Triangular shogi)
    hexagonal cells Masonic shogi Space shogi – a 3D variant Triangular Chess – a chess variant with triangular cells Pritchard (1994), p. 324 Pritchard (2007), p...
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    The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion. It...
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    colour-restricted game piece such as the orthodox chess bishop usually comes in sets of three per player in order to maintain the game's balance. Many different...
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  • Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer...
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  • castling. A series of Grand Chess Cyber World Championship matches was sponsored by the Dutch game site MindSports. Grand Chess tournaments were held annually...
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    The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...
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    Cross chess is a chess variant invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1982. The game is played on a board comprising 61 cross-shaped cells, with players each...
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    Game of the Three Kingdoms (Chinese: 三國棋, Pinyin: Sān-guó-qí ; also called Sanguo Qi, Three Kingdoms Chess, or Three-Handed Xiangqi) is a three-player...
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  • are played as in orthodox chess. If a pawn captures on eighth rank, it is promoted first and then changes colour. The game was named after the German...
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  • Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically...
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    Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...
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  • Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game, is an asymmetric chess variant in which Black has the standard chess army and White has 32 pawns. This game was...
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