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De Vasa Chess. Play this hexagonal variant on a rhombus board with Jocly.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 21, 2023 02:28 PM UTC in reply to Max Koval from 10:49 AM:

The section of Pritchard's Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants for Boards based on hexagons mentions that the 9-rank board with Pawns on the 3rd and 7th ranks is a revision of the original variant. So, this should probably be called De Vasa's Hexagonal Chess II.


Max Koval wrote on Fri, Apr 21, 2023 10:49 AM UTC:

It is interesting to note that according to ludii.games, De Vasa's Chess was initially proposed on a slightly different board with eight rows instead of nine. The initial setup of it looks the same as in Mike Layfield's 9-pawn hexagonal chess but with different rules and on a non-squeezed board. Quadibloc.com also describes De Vasa's Chess as a variant with eight rows.


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