The first published hexagonal chess variant was the commercial game Hexagonia.

Pieces move usually as in one of the versions of hexagonal chess:

All pieces except pawn move in the same way as in Gliński's hexagonal chess.

Stalemate is a draw in Shafran's hexagonal chess.

Dieter Stein tried to achieve a clean and original game differing from the hexagonal chess but to have minor similarities.

Gliński's hexagonal chess: the most popular version of chess for the hex board.

(Compare Gliński's hexagonal chess, which has three bishops for this very reason.)

Brusky's hexagonal chess: chess on an irregular board of 84 hex cells.

Successful Hexagonal Chess event staged.

Hexagonal chess: a family of chess variants played on a hexgrid with three colours and three bishops.

The term hexagonal chess designates a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagons.

Hexagonal Chess was topic for many newspapers and magazines in Poland and other Eastern European countries.

December: First issue of "Hex Press" (Hexagonal Chess News) published.

Sponsored by magazine "Horyzonty Techniki" (which includes a regular column on Hexagonal Chess).

Precisely this was the motivation for this design, considering the fact that usually hexagonal chess pawn is the only piece that does not increase their mobility.

For example, hexagonal chess replaces the four directions of orthogonal movement (along ranks and files) with the six directions to adjacent cells, through cell edges.

September: First Hungarian Hexagonal Chess Championship in Szekszard.

Hexagonal Chess clubs formed in Poland, Czechoslovakia and USSR.

This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.

(For example, rooks have six directions of movement, and Masonic pawns move and capture the same as pawns in de Vasa's hexagonal chess.

July: An open Hexagonal Chess Tournament was held on 10th and 11th July in the famous Sokolniki Park in Moscow.

Chess variants are forms of chess where the game is played using a different board (e.g. hexagonal chess or 3D chess), different rules, or special fairy pieces.

Accasta was influenced by Dr. Emanuel Lasker's Lasca and Wladyslaw Glinksi's hexagonal chess they invented.

McCooey's hexagonal chess: chess on the same hexagonal board as Gliński's hex chess, but using a different starting array, seven pawns instead of nine, and pawns capture forward diagonally.

Stefan Gruber's Hexagonal Chess is partially an answer to Douglas Hofstadter's challenge to translate traditional square lattice chess into a hexagonal lattice version, which Hoffstadter calls, "chesh."