Your king is in Atari -- check!

[jducoeur]

Surely, I can't be the only game geek who looked at this XKCD comic, and immediately started wondering how that game would work. It's weirdly tempting to try and figure out hybrid rules that actually function...

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Just last night, I was reading Douglas Hofstadter writing about the game of chesh -- which is *like* chess, but on a hexagonal board.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Okay, I misread chesh as some sort of weird variant of chess played using csh.

The details are left as an exercise to the reader...