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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]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 3 08:19 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:30 AM:

Is it possible to make an Interactive Diagram use a hexagonal board?

The current standard scripts do not support that. The I.D. represents the board through a HTML table, and in theory it should be possible to create a table with a masonry-like tiling, shifting each subsequent rank by half a cell. This could be done by giving the first cell on each rank colspan 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., and all other cells colspan="2".

I have tried this, though, and it works to some extent. But for reasons that I do not grasp yet it also changes the height of the ranks in a way that I could not control.

Once the pieces are displayed on the hexagonal grid defined by the table, suppressing cell borders and coloring would allow display of a custom hexagonal board image as background.