Can Chess, with Hexagons?

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[iamalexhu]

As a square chess lover, thank you for explaining this in classic easy-to-understand Grey style. Now I have to learn how to play!

[rocbolt]

Grey signed hexagons is the most on brand brand thing ever 🐝

[marcuswong]

I thought Grey building the hex board off of tiles is insane, little did i know that he is going to record and animate like 100 videos for rock paper scissors

[Lebrenth]

On the original hexagons video I remember thinking "Hey, what about hexagon Minesweeper!?" and considered making it. However I found Globesweeper which not only had hexagons, but also solved the issues caused by the border by being on a globe. I found that hexagon Minesweeper was NOT that great, actually. This is because you need more clues per corner. A hexagon has 6 sides, but each corner is only adjacent to 3 tiles, as opposed to the classic square where it only has 4 sides but each corner is adjacent to 4 tiles. The interesting logic puzzles only occur when you have at least 3 clues to compare against. With the hexagons, it was usually either perfectly clear or impossible to deduce. So, though you CAN hexagon Minesweeper, you really shouldn't bother.

But then that same game really blew my mind when it gave me triangles! Now that's where it's at! With 6 tiles to a corner, you have a lot to work with. And for you hexagon enthusiasts, don't worry. The hexagons are still there, they're just hiding among the triangles.

[kjth]

I have watched this so many times, and only just now noticed that at 1:02 Grey says "That's a hexcelent question" 😂😂

[gizmo]

Can’t the white king at 10:35 just capture the black queen? She’s not protected by the bishop

[webbowser]

"Can Chess, with Hexagons?" is such a wonderfully minimalistic video title. I love it.

[aravisthetarkheena]

I'm not smart enough for regular chess, but I do love hexagons, so I bought Hive and just call it "bug chess" 🤣 maybe one day I can aspire to real hexagonal chess

[jcoogs]

I was sold as soon as you said hex chess includes en passant

[KaptenN]

The king is limited in movement because communications will collapse if he moves around too much. He leads the battle, after all, and every unit has to look to him for commands and sending status reports.

[RainAngel]

Honestly I think buying all those hexes and building that board was worth it for how clean the video turned out.

[vtmarik]

Ooo, this would make for an amazing Battle Chess game on PC

[adamjdorfman]

Bit of a question about pawns. You describe diagonal motion really clearly in this video, and I agree that it’s really elegant on a hex board. But shouldn’t that mean pawns attack that way as well, teleporting to that corresponding color?

I trust that this was playtested to not be the case, but just curious to know how that may affect things!

[herrabanani]

the problem with making any chess variant is that the only thing that actually makes chess good is the high number of people that know the rules of the game, so as soon as you change the rules you have no one to play with

[Markyparky]

Sounds like a fun coding project to make an AI for this. Wonder what the chess notation for this would be?

[TheMaskedGamer]

"That's a *hex*ellent question." ~ 1:00
Ha! Love it, Grey.

[ducanhdinh]

Please bring back comments Grey.

The comment section is one of the many factors that contribute to why the Youtube watching experience is so special to me. Reading what other viewers' thoughts on the video, both the good and bad, then also reading others' thoughts on those comments does really elevate the experience.

As a student who doesn't have time for other social media sites, nor the processing power to even engage with them (my devices are always slow), Youtube is the only site I often use. Putting Reddit as the main way views can engage in discussion is inconvenient at best, and at worst, destructive.

This video is a clear example; it is mostly just regular praise for the content, and maybe one or two thought-provoking comments, but that's it. You can never expect most people to put more thought and effort than the bare minimum to comment, of course, but that's what reply chains are for. Without it, the video, while still very well-made of course, just feels so much emptire; it is not much better than turning off your comments entirely.

I dont't even know if you will, or can, read this, and you do not owe your non-patron viewers like myself anything, but I do sincerely hope you'll really consider going back on this decision. I'd rather deal with bots then take away the magic of the comment section.

Sincerely,
An avid, non-patron fan.

[volts]

That's a pretty hexcellent question you answered.

[Urkkahlia]

Shouldn’t pawns’ capture move translate into diagonals in the same way as the bishops?

[Eclectic-Sheep]

2:21 Sneaky Sting sighting! Love to see it.