Gliński's hexagonal chess. Starting position. Gliński's hexagonal chess is a chess variant played on a hexagonal board. It was invented in 1936 by Władysław Gliński. This is the most popular game of hexagonal chess variants. At one point of time there were more then half-a-million players of this game, and more then 130.000 board sets have been sold. The game was very popular in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, Gliński's native country. A chess variant is any game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Rules
The game is played on a hexagonal board with three colors (light, dark and gray). Usual set of chess pieces is extended with a bishop and a pawn. Initial setup is shown on the diagram at right. The board has 12 files, marked with letters a, b, c, ..., k, l (letter j is not used) and 11 ranks. Ranks 1-6 have 12 squares. They bend at 120° on file f. The rank 7 (it is filled with black pawns in initial setup) has 9 squares, rank 8 - 7, rank 11 - only one square, f11. In chess, each player has one of two equivalent sets of pieces of different colors. ...
The diagrams below show how the pieces move. As in chess, knight can jump over other pieces. Three bishops on different colors can never meet. Queen moves as rook and bishop. There is no castling in this game.
Pawns move straight forward and capture diagonally to adjacent square (shown as red circles on the diagram above). Please note, that pawn's capture move direction doesn't correspond to bishop move, like it is the case in chess. A pawn can make a double step from initial position. If a pawn captures from it's initial position in such a way, that it occupies an initial position of another pawn, it can still can make a double move. For example, if pawn e4 would capture a black piece on f5, it could still have an option to move to f7. Capture en-passant is possible. For example, if black pawn c7 on diagram above moves to c5, white pawn on b5 can capture it: b5xc6. Pawns promote on furthest part of the board from corresponding player. Promotion area for white pawns is shown on the diagram above with stars. En passant (from French: while [the pawn is] passing) is a maneuver in the board game of chess. ...
Stalemate is not a draw in this chess variant, but still is counted less then checkmate. In tournament games, the stalemated player (player who can't make any legal move) earns ¼ points and the player who delivers stalemate ¾ points. Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move has no legal moves but is not in check. ...
Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one players king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. ...
References - D.B. Pritchard (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (p. 139). ISBN 0952414201.
External links - Gliński's Hexagonal Chess by Hans L. Bodlaender.
- Hexagonal chess (in Russian) - a lot of information about Gliński's hexagonal chess, including rules, openings theory and problems.
|
Feeds |
Contact