3P3

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."—Albert Einstein

Photo of Hexes 3-Pawn chess for three players.
printed on a vinyl sticker, adhered to foam-core and trimmed in white electrical tape.

is the three-player version of . It is a compressed chess game, so the pawns do not get a two-hex opening move, and there is no en passant rule. Its main idiosyncrasy is its odd triskelion shape. Each of its three "arms" is called a tridrant (rhymes with hydrant). Each tridrant has three files (columns), that bend 60° at the third rank. Like the two-player version, a king and knight can accomplish checkmate without help from other pieces.


number
of players		 number
of hexes		 pieces
per player		 game
density		 degrees of
freedom		 opening
moves		 full size or
compressed
3461278%55216compressed

Illustration of Hexes 3-pawn chess for three players.