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In school, as my personal project for the myp, I am making a chessboard that can be assembled into a three-player chessboard. For the purposes of research, I would appreciate it if some of you (or just one person), who have experience in/with three-player chess, could answer a few questions. NOTE: This will be cited as a web interview. 1. What type of three-player boards/chess-variations do you have experience with? 2. Have you played three-player chess? 3. If so: a) How long did the game(s) take (on average)? b) Did two players team up? c) Did it seem like the winner deserved the win? If not, why? d) Was it fun? 4. What was the most confusing part (if any) about the changes made to accommodate the third player? 5. Did you find any new rules interesting? 6. Did you feel as though the rules or board should have been a bit different? Why? 7. Were there any general issues with the rules/design-of-the-board? 8. What do most three-player variations say would happen in the following scenario: Q2 = player one's Queen,N1 = player two's Knight,K3 = player three's king. Q2, N1, and K3 are placed in a row. Player one moves their knight. It is check on player three, but it is player two's turn. Player two captures player three's king (?). So my question is, would player three lose, would player one have to keep their knight there or would player two not be allowed to take the king before a proper checkmate? 9. Any other comments? As I said earlier, the chessboard I am going to make will be like the traditional one at first but will be "assembled" into a three-player chessboard. Thus, the design of the three-player is different from other three-player variations of chess. However, I could not add a picture of it in this comment.
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I hope someone here has played more 3-player chess than I to be able to answer Timmy's questions. One thing I can say about any multiplayer chess is that a free-for-all tends to lead to players who are behind ganging up on the leader(s). Most people find this a detriment to the game.
Three player variants on this site
[Our games have an entry for number of players, but our searches previously didn't allow it to be searched. I've added code to make that possible. I will update some search forms later, as I hope to add/modify some other functionality there still.]