Trishogi is a shogi variant for two players created by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1987 and published in World Game Review No. 10, edited by Michael Keller, in June 1991. It is played on a board of interlocking triangular cells arranged nine by ten, rather than the square grid of standard shogi, and every piece's legal moves have been reworked to fit that triangular geometry. In every other respect the game follows shogi exactly, keeping the same piece types and counts, the same setup, the same rule allowing captured pieces to be dropped back onto the board, the same promotion rules, and the same checkmate condition. The change in geometry reshapes how pieces actually move: the rook moves in six directions along the triangular ranks and files instead of four, and the king can step to as many as twelve surrounding cells depending on how its own triangle is oriented, compared to eight in standard shogi.
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1. Trishogi (Wikipedia)
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The game is in all respects the same as shogi, except that piece moves have been transfigured for the triangular board-cell geometry
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Trishogi is a shogi variant designed for two players
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Created by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1987
View the Source2. Trishogi (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 60
- Designer: George R. Dekle, Sr.
- Publisher: (Self-Published)
- Game Category: Abstract Strategy
- Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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