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= Hexes Chess =

Hexes Chess is a collection of six strategy hexagonal chess games for two or three players.

In the late 1990s, U.S. designer Mike Layfield created a hexagonal chess game with a lozenge-shaped chess board comprising 54 hexagons and accommodating two sets of 15 chess pieces. In 2003 one thousand copies of Hexes Chess were manufactured. A decade later, in pursuit of a more parsimonious design, Layfield created a suite of chess games: Hexes 3-Pawn, 4-Pawn, 6-Pawn and 9-Pawn. (The 6-Pawn is an updated version of the original Hexes Chess game.) Playing chess on hexagons increases the mobility of the chess pieces by half. Kings, queens and rooks travel in 12 directions; rooks and bishops travel in six directions. Hexes Chess pawns travel in the three forward-most directions and capture hard-forward-left and hard-forward-right.

Contents

 * How
 * Hexes Chess for 2-Players
 * Hexes Chess for 3-Players