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[coyotegoth]

3-man chess.

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[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Very cool -- though it does double the problem of finding someone with whom to play. ;-)

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

I have a three-person chess set that's played on a hexagonal board -- basically three half-boards (4x8), distorted to accomodate the third half. Then I created myh own four-person chess board, with another half-board added and the whole thing distorted into an octagon. Really cool and innovative, but good luck finding people to play any of it with.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Then I created myh own four-person chess board, with another
half-board added and the whole thing distorted into an octagon.

That's brilliant :)

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

Not if I can't find three other people to actually play it with! :-)

I once saw another four-player chess set, with the pieces starting at the corners of a 16x16 square board; capital pieces in a 3x3 square, pawns around that square (that's only seven squares -- not sure where the eighth pawn started, maybe in the 9th inner square?). Needless to say, that variation didn't take off either. I guess most chess players either don't like newfangled variations, or don't like playing chess and Risk at the same time.

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

PS: Sorry to hear about your mugging. Hope they catch the guy.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Thanks- me, too!