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Shafran's Hexagonal Chess

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By the Soviet geologist Isaak Grigor'evich Shafran. For now, pawns promote only to queens.

Shafran's Hexagonal Chess
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Written by Ed Friedlander

WWW Page Added: April 1, 2003 

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Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Isaak Grigorevich Shafran.

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Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. A classic hexagonal variant from Russia.
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Apr 6, 2023 11:33 AM EDT in reply to Ben Good from Mon Feb 23 2004 11:43 PM EST:

yet surprisingly there is no cv.com page for it other than this one.

There is now, 19 years later. See Shafran's Hexagonal Chess.


Mark Thompson wrote on Tue, Feb 24, 2004 08:15 AM EST:
There is a zrf for Shafran's Hexagonal Chess. It's on the Zillions site listed under 'Hexagonal Chess.'

Ben Good wrote on Mon, Feb 23, 2004 11:43 PM EST:
this looks like an interesting game, and i've had several conversations where people mention it, yet surprisingly there is no cv.com page for it other than this one. i'd really like to see somebody make a zillions zrf for it.

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