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AltOrth Hex Chess. Hexagonal variant using pieces moving only one way along each orthogonal. (11x11, Cells: 91) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Joe Joyce wrote on Fri, Mar 9, 2007 01:23 AM UTC:

Charles, you lead me to ask just what, exactly, chess is. Specifically, in
this case, what the lower limits of chess are. I don't think there are
any hard and fast breakpoints where, if you've got [or not] one thing, it
is [or isn't] chess, regardless of what else is there. But I haven't
thought about this before, and would be interested in hearing your
thoughts on it, as, with games like this and 3D minishogi, you are clearly
designing some things near that edge. 
Sorry about the too-obscure reference. Pierson's Puppeteers are an alien
race introduced by author Larry Niven in the novel 'Ringworld', I
believe. Google the internet. They are famous cowards , and their leader,
the most revered creature of their species, leads from the rear, all the
way back, the farther the better. This exalted leader is called 'the
Hindmost'.