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Can chess, with hexagons?

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    arctanh
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    This was a great video! I watched it earlier today! It actually really got me wondering about how we might go about expanding this idea to other tiling polygons, which I guess is only triangles....

    This was a great video! I watched it earlier today!

    It actually really got me wondering about how we might go about expanding this idea to other tiling polygons, which I guess is only triangles.

    But we could take it step further, too! What about semiregular tilings? Or tilings with irregular polygons? Could we generalize piece movements such that they are consistent across all tiled planes? What about in higher dimensions? It could be a fun project :)

    10 votes
    1. phoenixrises
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      Your comment reminded me of a video I watched on 5 dimensional chess a while ago: https://youtu.be/OL73o48db7s Imagine that but with hex chess, I'm not sure I could keep up.

      Your comment reminded me of a video I watched on 5 dimensional chess a while ago:
      https://youtu.be/OL73o48db7s

      Imagine that but with hex chess, I'm not sure I could keep up.

      5 votes
    2. unknown user
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      Someone should try making a game with that newly discovered aperiodic monotiling

      Someone should try making a game with that newly discovered aperiodic monotiling

      3 votes
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    phoenixrises
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    If you're a lucky person and havent seen the "prequel" to this video, watch it! https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY It's probably one of my favorite YouTube videos ever.

    If you're a lucky person and havent seen the "prequel" to this video, watch it!
    https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY

    It's probably one of my favorite YouTube videos ever.

    10 votes
    1. pvik
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      Great video! Bees actually create circular wax cells that get compacted into hexagons (as the cells get smushed together, constraining towards min wax usage :) [1] Hexagons are the bestagons!

      Great video!

      Bees actually create circular wax cells that get compacted into hexagons (as the cells get smushed together, constraining towards min wax usage :) [1]

      Hexagons are the bestagons!

      5 votes
    2. Algernon_Asimov
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      That was so much fun! Thanks for that! One tiiiny clarification, though: bees don't actually make hexagons in their honeycomb. They make circles, which then collapse into hexagons.

      That was so much fun! Thanks for that!

      One tiiiny clarification, though: bees don't actually make hexagons in their honeycomb. They make circles, which then collapse into hexagons.

      3 votes
    3. If_in_doubt_lick_it
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      Thanks for sharing this! Hexagons really are the bestagons

      Thanks for sharing this! Hexagons really are the bestagons

      3 votes
  3. fidwell
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    This video is a cute introduction to the game, but it feels a bit shallow. We go over how pieces move, but it's just the information from the book regurgitated. How does the game actually play?...

    This video is a cute introduction to the game, but it feels a bit shallow. We go over how pieces move, but it's just the information from the book regurgitated. How does the game actually play? (And I mean against a real opponent, too.) Is it deeper than regular chess, once you're comfortable with the moveset? What kinds of new strategies evolve? Let's go deeper than just surface level.

    7 votes
  4. Algernon_Asimov
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    That was amazingly logical, and yet mind-bending. I love this! Digging further, it seems there are a variety of hexagonal chess versions. The Glinski version demonstrated by Grey in this video (I...

    That was amazingly logical, and yet mind-bending. I love this!

    Digging further, it seems there are a variety of hexagonal chess versions. The Glinski version demonstrated by Grey in this video (I checked: the book he receives is a Glinski rule book) is the earliest and most popular version, but far from the only one.

    Fascinating! I don't play chess very well, but I want to give this version a try.

    6 votes