Hexagonal chess

On this website, you can learn and play hex chess online with friends or anyone else on the internet. Play fast or slow games, try different game modes, search your friends, talk to them or challenge them for a game.

There are many hexchess variants. On this site, you can play the most popular variant: Gliński's hexagonal chess. Gliński's hexagonal chess was invented in 1936. Play Gliński's hexagonal chess online live or correspondence mode.

Hexagonal chess is a must try game for everyone who plays chess. Hexagonal chess is much more complicated than regular chess. Playing hex chess also improves regular chess skills. There are lots of interesting things in hex chess, some of these are:

• As the name insist it, hex chess is played on a hexagonal board, divided to 91 smaller hexagons.
• Instead of 2, there are 3 differnet colored hexagons. 30-30-31 from these colors.
• As a consequence of the last point, each player has 3 bishops.
• The number of rows is not always the same. It varies between 6 (for example a rank) to 11 (f rank).
• There is no castling in hexchess
• Pieces (except for pawn) have more legal moves than in chess. For example the queen can move to 42 different hexagons from the middle of the board.

For more details read the rules.

On this website, you can also play some special variants. You can learn about the variants here.

For tips and tricks read the tips page. Highly recommended to new and also to experienced players.

Try our hex chess application to save any of your games and play against the computer.

Have a great time playing hex chess. Good luck and have fun!