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Constitutional Characters. A systematic set of names for Major and Minor pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]<i><blockquote>
Interestingly, in his earlier (more informal, mass market) 'Brain
Games', (Penguin Books, 1982) Pritchard used 'files' and 'lines' in
describing the paths in Glinski's 'Hexagonal Chess', rather than
'orthogonals' and 'diagonals'.
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Interesting. I will note that the Prichard quote I made earlier was from the quick description of FIDE Chess in his introduction to <u>The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants</u>, so apparently he was comfortable using the term that way on a rectangular board. However, I suspect he wasn't entirely happy with <strong>any</strong> terminology for Hexagonal Chess, as in the ECV he avoided using any terms at all for hexagonal Rook movement, relying on diagrams instead.