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    Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...
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    Władysław Gliński (1936). McCooey's hexagonal chess: Chess on the same hexagonal board as Gliński's Hexagonal Chess, but using a different starting array...
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  • Pieces move usually as in one of the versions of hexagonal chess. Chesh: Played on a 169-cell regular hexagon board. By Douglas Hofstadter (2005); interpreted...
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    Hex map (redirect from Hexagonal map)
    games and video games. A hex map is subdivided into a hexagonal tiling, small regular hexagons of identical size. The primary advantage of a hex map over...
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    many hexagonal crystal system minerals Hexagonal barn The Hexagon, a hexagonal theatre in Reading, Berkshire Władysław Gliński's hexagonal chess Pavilion...
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    Chessboard (redirect from Chess Board)
    circular chess, one of the many variants of traditional chess Cylinder chess, another variant of traditional chess Gliński's hexagonal chess is a variant...
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    play of chess variants is predominately on a casual basis. A few variants have had significant tournaments. Several Gliński's hexagonal chess tournaments...
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    Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...
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  • Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
    square grid, such as masonic chess, triangular chess, Shafran's and Brusky's hexagonal chess, and millennium 3D chess. In 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel...
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  • Birgfeld (1922) On Retraction Chess Problems by Dr. Niels Hoeg (1927) Hexagonal Chess by H. D. Baskerville (1929) Chess Chimes from Prague by Z. Mach...
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    Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...
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    Janggi (redirect from Korean chess)
    sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...
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    notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
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    Dunsany's Chess), non-standard pieces (e.g. Grand Chess), and different board geometries (e.g. hexagonal chess or Infinite chess); In the context of chess variants...
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  • Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...
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    king in the three-player hexagonal variant sannin shogi can also promote, gaining the ability to move like a hexagonal chess queen and the ability to...
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    algebraic notation to describe chess moves. De Vasa's hexagonal chess Also by George Dekle: Masonic Shogi Cross chess – a hexagonal variant with cross-shaped...
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    Makruk (redirect from Thai Chess)
    Makruk (Thai: หมากรุก; RTGS: mak ruk; pronounced [màːk rúk]), or Thai chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy...
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  • Dice chess can refer to a number of chess variants in which dice are used to alter gameplay; specifically that the moves available to each player are determined...
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    Three-man chess is a chess variant for three players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1984. The game is played on a hexagonal board comprising 96 quadrilateral...
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  • Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...
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  • Stalemate (redirect from Stalemate (chess))
    ISBN 9780786494279. Alexander 1973:107 Losing Chess Gliński's Hexagonal Chess Alexander, C.H.O'D. (1973), A Book of Chess, New York: Harper & Row, ISBN 978-0-0601-0048-3...
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    Xiangqi (redirect from Chinese chess)
    (/ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular...
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    first board). Hexagonal chess – any of various variants played on a hexagonal board or board with hexagonal cells. Three-dimensional chess – any of various...
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  • Wladyslaw Gliński's hexagonal chess. Dieter Stein tried to achieve a clean and original game differing from the hexagonal chess but to have minor similarities...
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  • Kriegspiel is a chess variant invented by Henry Michael Temple in 1899 and based upon the original Kriegsspiel (German for war game) developed by Georg...
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  • The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard represents a jungle terrain with dens...
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    addition to the standard number of chess pieces. Pieces move in the context of a gameboard with hexagonal cells, but Cross chess has its own definition of ranks...
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  • games; for terms specific to chess, see Glossary of chess; for terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems. Directory:  A B C D...
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    Hexshogi (redirect from Hexagonal shogi)
    comprises 85 hexagonal cells. The game is in all respects the same as shogi, except that piece moves have been transfigured for the hexagonal board-cell...
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