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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 10:27 PM UTC:

Some anonymous person (Charles Gilman?) writes:

'However, some diagonals have longer shortest moves than others and I
still wish to distinguish between them on that basis. How about equal
distances in...: 2 orthogonal directions at 90º to each other = standard
diagonal; 3 at 90º or 2 at 60º = nonstandard diagonal;'

Do you mean 3 at 60º? A hexagonal board has diagonals along 3 axes.

'2 at 60º AND another at 90º to both = hybrid diagonal?'

What kind of board has that?

'Surely everyone can agree that Hex boards 'have a nonstandard diagonal
but no standard diagonal'.'

No, I don't accept this as a valid distinction. All that's nonstandard
is the board. Given the standard for what diagonal means, diagonals on a
hexboard are as standard as diagonals on a square board. Of course, they
may be less familiar to those who only know the standard board, but
unfamiliar doesn't mean nonstandard.

'First mentions could be clarified in more detail, e.g. (colloquially
called triagonal).'

I'm all for describing movement in detail for nonstandard boards. Even
though I will maintain that the hexagonal Bishop moves diagonally and that
the hexagonal Rook moves orthogonally, I would not say so little in a
description of a game and leave it to the readers to figure out. See my
description of Hex Shogi as an example.