Sovereign Chess Sovereign Chess Sovereign Chess is a commercial chess variant designed by Mark Bates and produced by Infinite Pi Games. The game is played on a 16 x 16 board and begins with 112 pieces—a normal complement of white and black pieces (16 each), and 80 other colored pieces (8 each of 10 different colors). The colored pieces are considered “neutral” at the beginning of the game, and can not initially be moved nor captured. The center of the board contains an arrangement of 24 colored squares (2 each in every color, including white and black), which determine control of the
Triangular Chess promotion at the last . But the triangular geometry implies special move patterns for the pieces. Tri-Chess is a variation of Triangular Chess created by Dekle in the same year. The game is for two players and is the same as Triangular Chess in all respects except the moves of the bishop, rook, queen, and king are increased. Bibliography Triangular Chess 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 96 triangular cells. Each player commands a full set of chess pieces in