Three-Man Chess castling, a pawn's initial two-step option, "en passant", and promotion. The first player to checkmate an opponent wins the game. A player who is stalemated loses his turns to move, unless/until an opponent plays a move that releases the stalemate condition. While stalemated, his king is still subject to checkmate, and his other pieces are still subject to capture. Bibliography Three-Man Chess 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 cells. Each player controls a standard army of chess pieces.
Touch-move rule 5...Be7 in reply to 5.d4, not noticing that White actually played 5.d3 attacking his knight. Now compelled to move the bishop, he would lose the knight without compensation, so resigned immediately . If a player wishes to adjust the pieces on their squares without being required to move or capture the piece, the player can announce "j’adoube" (, "I adjust"), or words to that effect in other languages. "J’adoube" is internationally recognised by chess players as announcing the intent to make incidental contact with their pieces. The phrase is used to give warning from a player to their opponent that