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Falcon Hexagonal Chess. The Falcon into the Hexagonal world. (Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 05:45 AM UTC:
Sorry to have taken so long to get round to commenting, but I've been busy. The concept of colourswitching doesn't really work on a hex board. The significance of this property is that alternating between a board's only two colours prevents a piece 'losing the move', that is, gaining positional advantage by returning to a cell in an odd number of moves. On a hex board all fully symmetric pieces can do this, because there aren't just the two colours. Indeed they can do it in three moves forming an equilateral triangle, even if that means using cells of all three colours.