Hive
Hive is a boardless board game played with Hex tiles.
The
structure of the game is a fairly traditional chess-like
game, overlaid
with an insect. theme. The goal of the game is to
surround your
opponent's queen bee. The other pieces are represented
by insects
(ant, beetle, grasshopper, spider) and have rules for motion
which are
appropriate to their namesakes. It sounds a little
silly, but the
game is well balanced and lots of fun to play.
You can read the details in the official
rules, but briefly; the pieces are played but never
removed, and
must always form one connected "hive". Ants run
anwhere around
the outside of the hive. Beetles can move on top of
other
pieces. Grasshoppers move from one end of the hive to
the other,
and spiders move only in multiples of 3 spaces.
Rules Change: at
boardspace the "Queen" opening has been forbidden for both
black and
white. John Yianni supports this change, which
is intended
to eliminate the problem of excess draws in "queen opening"
games.
Robots: Dumbot
is a
credible but not stellar player.
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