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.
12/29/2008 As an
experiment, prompted by the massive excess of draws in the last
tournament, the "Queen" opening has been eliminated for both black and
white. John Yianni supports this experiment.
Robots: Dumbot is a
credible but not stellar player.
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