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Agon

Guide your Queen to the centre of a 91-hex board. Maneuver your Queen to the center hexagon and surround it with all six Guards. Pieces move one step to adjacent hexes, capturing by custodianship when flanking opponents on opposite sides.

1 Variants
chess Plugin
✓ Frontmatter-only

Declared, Not Coded

Every rule of Agon below is frontmatter in the rules corpus, played by the chess plugin. The board beside each is the game itself, live.

Agon (Standard) Rules

Maneuver your Queen to the center hexagon and surround it with all six Guards. Pieces move one step to adjacent hexes, capturing by custodianship when flanking opponents on opposite sides.

engine:
  topology:
    type: hex
    shape: hexagonal
    radius: 5
    orientation: pointy
  players: [white, black]
  plugin: chess
  plugins:
    agon:
      castling: false
      enPassant: false
      noCheck: true
      regions:
        throne:
          ring: [0, 0]
        outerRing:
          ring: [5, 5]
        notThrone:
          not: [throne]
      pieces:
        queen:
          type: rider
          dirs: orthogonal
          maxSteps: 1
          inward: true
  # …

Agon (Standard)

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Every Agon variant is playable against the AI or another player.

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