two possible forward moves (forward left and forward right) and three possible diagonal capturing moves (one directly in front). Precisely this was the motivation for this design, considering the fact that usually the hexagonal chess pawn is the only piece that does not increase its mobility. Chexs is a multiplayer variant; the version for two and three players uses a regular hexagon with sides of length 6, which consists of 91 cells, the four–six player version uses a regular hexagon with sides of length 9, which has 217 cells; pieces move as in Gliński's, but the setup is different; each player starts with only two bishops, and all bishops are on same-coloured cells. A checkmated player is defeated; the player who gave checkmate takes over control of the pieces of the defeated player; the winner is the player who has checkmated all his opponents. Echexs uses the same boards as Chexs, the same moves as Gliński's, but McCooey's setup. C'escacs 2007 is a Grand Gliński chess; the board is shaped as a regular hexagon with sides of length 8, which consists of 169 cells. In addition to the Gliński's setup, it introduces a dragon (empress, a rook+knight compound), two pegasi (princesses, bishop+knight compound) and two almogavars (a (2,0)- and (1,1)-leaper compound, i.e. it can jump either to the second square in any orthogonal direction, or move one step diagonally). Pawns' moves are increased to allow forward 60° moves (i.e. they now have three move directions instead of one), and captures are the same way McCooey's chess (i.e. they capture diagonally forward, two options). The scornful pawn capture additional rule counterbalances the excessive pawn mobility. See also Cross Chess—with extra pieces on a hexagonal board with cross-shaped cells Hexshogi—a shogi variant played on a board with 85 hexagonal cells Masonic Chess—with tiled squares and features similar to de Vasa's variant Sannin shogi—a three-player shogi variant on a hexagonal board Troy—a fairy chess variant on a hexagonal board References Bibliography Further reading External links e2–e4 a bilingual comment on having three kinds of bishops Chess for three, which summarily describes Wellisch' three-player chess and dozens of other three-player chess variants (triangular, hexagonal, quadrilateral, and others) Green Chess is a free online chess portal where you can play the Gliński, McCooey, Shafran, Brusky and de Vasa variations in a turn by turn manner 91-cell hexagonal chessboard—a printable diagram of a 91-cell hexagonal chessboard