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In 1982 Wayne invented two multi-player chess games. The first, Trimens Chess, is a game for 3-players. The second, Tetrad Chess, is for 4-players.
Trimens Chess: Trimens (Latin for Three-Minds) was specifically designed as a game for three players. As a variation of standard (2-player) chess, Trimens Chess uses the same compliment of sixteen pieces per player and the same (moves and) rules. If you already know how to play chess, Trimens takes moments to learn.
While Trimens Chess is a chess game designed for three players, it may also be played by two. Trimens Chess is the logical application of the rules of chess to a playing board composed of triangles. Each player is equipped with the sixteen standard chess pieces and all standard chess rules apply (with the exception of "en passant").
The main concept of Trimens Chess is that moves are always made from the moving player's viewpoint. In a standard chess game, when one player moves horizontally, the move is horizontal to both players (the same applies to horizontal and diagonal moves). In Trimens Chess the players are at sixty degree angles to each other, therefore when player 2 makes a horizontal move the move will be viewed by players 1 and 3 as being diagonal.
There are also two additional rules unique to Trimens Chess:
The rule of diagonal movement
The rule of "dead pieces".
The rule of diagonal movement states: While moving diagonally a player may not pass through the points of the triangles. Passing through the points of the triangles is legal only for pieces moving vertically (from the moving player's viewpoint).
The rule of dead pieces states: Any piece belonging to a player who is checkmated (or stalemated) before the termination of the game, is to be considered a "dead" piece and is not to be removed from its position on the board". "Dead Pieces" become a part of the playing board and cannot be displaced by either remaining player.
Download the Trimens Chess rulebook (717 Kb) here:Trimens Chess rules
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