3Chess

3-player chess on a symmetric 127-cell hex board. Three armies — Gold, Azure, Crimson — compete in a game that chess engines cannot solve.

A river has been dry for three years. No one knows why. If the fourth winter comes without water, no one survives to spring. In a three-sided hall that has not been used in twenty years, a sphere floats — older than language, older than the first eyes that ever saw it. When three strangers receive...