Hexes Games

Hexes Chess was created by U.S. designer Mike Layfield. The idea of hexagonal chess occurred to him in 1992 during a game of chess with a friend. Soon afterward, he built and tested his first prototypes. After nearly a decade of experimentation and game testing, Layfield settled on a chess-board design comprised of 54 hexagons and accommodating two sets of 15 chess pieces. In 2003 Hexes Games was born and 1000 copies of Hexes Chess were manufactured. Over the next decade, an alternative set-up and castling rule was added to the game sets on a printed card.

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Hexes: Hexagonal Chess