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Witch's Chess A game information page . Two or three player hexagonal variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Ralf Hansmann wrote on Tue, Sep 14, 2004 08:27 PM UTC:
Well, I just stated my true, subjective opinion, without any exaggerations. But anyway, <b>the game</b> should be evaluated by the ratings, and <b>not</b> its inventor. I must admit that the naming of the figures is not as creative, as it might appear on first sight. It is simply a word play. Hexe is the german word for witch, and therefore, as the board is hexagonal, we have named the figures like the figures surrounding a Hexe. Word plays of course loose their charm when being translated to a foreign language, but the renaming of the pieces was not simply to something cutesy. I can see a lot of creativity here.