lrnzdc3696 / hexapawn

Welcome to hexapawn 👋

What is Hexpawn?

Hexapawn is a simple two-player board game which has it's origins in chess and was developed by Martin Gardner in 1962. It is played on a mere 3x3 rectangular board and, as the name implies, all the pieces on the board are exclusively pawns.

Unlike chess, the board size can vary, as well as the amount of pawns (proportional to the board size). The game was initially constructed in order to demonstrate how it could be played by a heuristic AI implemented by a mechanical computer based on Donald Michie's Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (a computer made out of matchboxes).

How to play Hexapawn

On a board size n*m, each player begins with m pawns, one for each square in the row closest to them. The goal of each player is to advance one of their pawns to the opposite end of the board or to prevent the other player from moving.

Rules

Just like in chess, each pawn may be moved in two different ways:

1. One Square forward
2. One Square diagonally to capture a other pawn

A pawn may not be moved forward if there is a pawn in the next square. Contrary to chess, the first move of a pawn may not advance it by two spaces. A player loses if they have no legal moves or the other player reaches the end of the board with a pawn. Since each pawn can only move forward, there is no need for a draw by repetition rule.

Variants

As the board size is extendible, the rules can also be naturally extended to larger boards. Additionally, the pawns can be replaced by Berolina pawns or Berolina Plus pawns.

Setup

Fork the hexapawn repository to your GitHub Account.

Then, run:

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Prerequisites

• Git
• Python

Usage - Running hexapawn

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How it works

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FAQ

Need help?

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Want to report a bug or suggest an Enhancement?

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👉 For more information on how to contribute, please read through our CONTRIBUTING.md!

Want to Contribute?

Check out our Issues with the good first issue and help wanted label. We suggest also looking at the closed ones to get a sense of what your issue and/or PR should look like.

👉 For more information on how to contribute, please read through our CONTRIBUTING.md!

Code of Conduct

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Author

👤 LrnzDC3696

• Github: @LrnzDC3696

Ressources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080616173331/http://www.javazoid.com/hexapawn.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapawn

License

hexapawn is free and open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU License.

hexapawn's Issues

Add Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

Add a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, which represents the values of this project, makes clear that everybody in the community gets treated with respect and that the participation in our community will always be a harassment-free experience for everyone.

Add a more descriptive readme.

Please add stuff like how to contribute, what the code is about, what hexapawn is, all the usefull stuff.

Add CONTRIBUTING.md

Please add frontend

Please add some way to visually see what's happening. Maybe Tkinter here or Kivy.