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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 Thu, Sep 13, 2007 06:18 PM UTC:

Well, coincidences do happen, I suppose. It did look uncannily like a reply
to my original comment, which was referring to the 'switching' in the
text. I'm not sure what 'changing' means in this context. Is the Rook
colour-'changing', or the King, or the original Falcon, or the Cardinal,
or the Gnu? Is it, in fact, simply a synonym for non-colourbound?
	Note that I am not criticising the variant, only pointing out that a
symmetric hex piece never has a switching property, regarding multiples of
2 or 3 or any other number of moves. It can retract its last move (return
in 2) or triangulate (return in 3), and any larger number of moves can be
a sum of multiples of those. I also like how this page hints at an
exploration of hex analogues to square-board pieces and where they break
down - the conflicting orthogonal and diagonal definitions of 'Camel',
for example.