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Geodesic Chess is a game information page. It is categorized as: Unorthodox shaped board, Board with hexagonal shaped cells, In a category all its own. This item is located on a site outside of chessvariants.org.

Geodesic Chess. Variation of hexagonal chess on a geodesic sphere with a few new pieces added.

By Jack V. Cheiky.

Notes

Geodesic Chess is played on a GeoBoard: a spherical grid of hexagons and pentagons. GeoBoards can map a sphere in as few as 32 spaces or in hundreds, thousands, and even millions of spaces. Most games played on a grid or a map can be adapted to the GeoBoard. GeoChess Basic is played between two players on a #9 GeoBoard consisting of 272 spaces.

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The board used for this game has 272 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.
Invented in the year 2004. [2003-2005]. [1999-2009].

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• Geodesic Chess. Variation of hexagonal chess on a geodesic sphere with a few new pieces added. (Cells: 279) By Jack V. Cheiky.
• Geodesic Chess. Played on a spherical grid of hexagons and pentagons. Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Jack V. Cheiky.

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