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There are few CVs yet for three, a field wide open for development. A requirement maybe is that your name start with a ''Z.'' That is, Zitzelsberger makes Triangle and Zubrin makes Three-Player. Compare Triangle Chess with year 1969 Three-Player, http://www.chessvariants.org/multiplayer.dir/three_player/three_player_chess.html, which is rank number #4 as of now at the NextChess project. Is there likely a greater than 50-50 chance the #4 Three-Player with great staying power is about to be overtaken by one next entrant? Also there is a unit solving triangles, including long diagonals, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25264. Sizes there are 49, 64, 81; and like Baseball Chess went from comments to CV in 2007, so equilateral triangular boards should work as genre of CV, of which Triangle Chess 144-spaced is good example. Originating Tetraktys itself is 10 points all right but nine cells, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25183.
Bishop and knight are too weak. Bishop actually can be long-range, look at my comment here (here i called it 'unicorn'): http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=26469 And knight also can be stronger if it also will be able to move first 1 diagonally, then 1 orthogonally (in addition to it's original move) - it will be able to leap in 6 directions. It's, by the way, colorbound, but to different coloring. I think, original knight and bishop, as a subvariant, must be replaced with these pieces. And am i right or not that rook can't retreat? But variant looks very interestinng.
The form of triangle chess shown on this site looks amazingly like the game that I invented when I was living in the roseburg, oregon area way back in 2003. as a matter of fact, the pieces, save for the knight, move exactly the same way.
but i also seem to recall a guy from jersey city or somewhere there-abouts by the name of david who was highly interested in my game. my pieces are set up differently and have greater range. I cant help but be suspicious. but maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Feedback to this comment will be welcome.
Clinton, Prior art: Tryslmaistan Chess, Chess for three, Klin Zha. Triangle chess is nothing new, All three of these variants probably could constitute prior art.
Clinton, Do you have a patent number that you can provide?
In may of 2003, I submitted an original version of triangle chess to inventech. my certificate date is monday, june 23rd,2003.
my e-mail is fphaugi@yahoo.com.
LET'S TALK,DAVID.
I used paper glued to cardboard. Straight edge, protractor, and colors. 60 degrees for triangles and 120 degrees for hexagons. If you play a few games, I would like some feedback.
Actually, vertex-then-side does not allow a knight to land on the same color. It will pass through its own color, then land on a different one. Also, what is the logic behind which three lines a rook/queen may use? The diagrams show three lines, but there are three others that equally fit the description of the move.
I had thought no for two reasons. 1) My understanding of the rules at the time was straight followed by diagonal, and though the other direction produces the same result it was specified in that direction. 2) The reverse allows the knight to land on the same color as it started on.
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