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Hexshogi is a
shogi variant A shogi variant is a game related to or derived from shogi (Japanese chess). Many shogi variants have been developed over the centuries, ranging from some of the largest chess-type games ever played to some of the smallest. A few of these variant ...
for two players created by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986. The gameboard comprises 85
hexagon In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°. Regular hexagon A regular hexagon is de ...
al cells. The game is in all respects the same as
shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as chess, Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. ...
, except that piece moves have been transfigured for the hexagonal board-cell geometry. Hexshogi was included in ''World Game Review'' No. 10 edited by Michael Keller.


Game rules

Hexshogi has the same types and numbers of pieces as shogi, and all normal shogi rules apply, including a similar initial setup (see diagram), drops,
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, check, checkmate, and impasse. As in shogi, pieces capture the same as they move. But the hexagonal geometry implies special move patterns for the pieces.


Piece moves

The diagrams show how the unpromoted pieces move. As in shogi, a ''
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'' (promoted rook) moves as a rook, or as a king. A '' dragon horse'' (promoted bishop) moves as a bishop or a king.


See also

*
Gliński's hexagonal chess Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon . The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell hexagonal board. Since each hexagonal cell not on a board edge has six neighbor cells, there ...
* Also by George Dekle: ** Trishogi – a variant with triangular cells ** Masonic Shogi ** Space Shogi – a 3D variant


Notes


References

Bibliography * *


External links


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variants by Fergus Duniho, ''
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