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Glinski's Hexagonal Chess. Chess on a board made out of hexagons. (Cells: 91) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, May 9, 2014 04:50 PM UTC:

I am working on a new Game Courier preset for this game that should handle win/loss conditions, and it occurred to me that double moves can be handled in one of two ways.

  1. A double move is allowed only on a Pawn's first move.
  2. A double move is allowed from any space the same player could start his Pawns on.

Has there been any ruling on which is correct? It makes a difference if a Pawn moves to another space that another of his Pawns started on by capturing a piece.


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, May 9, 2014 04:54 PM UTC:
I found the answer on Wikipedia. It says "If a pawn captures from its starting cell in such a way that it then occupies a starting cell of another pawn, it can still make a double move."

Ben Reiniger wrote on Fri, May 9, 2014 06:57 PM UTC:
(Maybe you added it after finding an answer on wikipedia, but that pawn rule currently appears here as rule 3.)

Michel Gutierrez wrote on Sat, May 17, 2014 11:51 AM UTC:
I have updated the Glinski Chess implementation on Jocly to match rule 2. The Android and iPhone/iPad apps are still using rule 1 until the next upgrade.

Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Sep 19, 2016 01:44 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

For my own comparison of this fine variant to the equally fine McCooey's Hexagonal Chess, see my review for the latter variant.

Decades ago I saw values given for the pieces in Glinski's (that would seem to apply to McCooey's too): P=1; B=3; N=4; R=5; Q=9. I'd add that I estimate the fighting value of K=4 approximately (though naturally it cannot be traded).


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