pychess-variants VS gungi.io

I've just tried a chess variant called Shako, where there are two new pieces: Elephant and Cannon. Wowww, the Cannon piece is amazing ! This piece moves and captures like the Cannon in Chinese chess. It's not too powerful, but quite useful. It brings a new perspective and different to attack to the game. The Cannon creates many 'discovered attacks' situations. It's awesome. If you haven't played it yet, give it a try: https://www.pychess.org/

I want to share https://www.pychess.org/ as well - while it doesn't have hexagonal chess, it has tons of variants and you can play both against the computer (that runs fairy stockfish - an engine that works with many chess variants) and against human players

My current favorite is https://www.pychess.org/variants/empire - it's been designed to be wildly asymmetric but actually the balance between the two armies are more even than regular chess' white vs black pieces.

My problem is that there is no literature, no published theory on most chess variants. At least I can't find any theory on empire ehess, and thus I have to develop strategies on my own - but that's how I played chess 20 years ago and it was awful.

The best part of chess IMO is the social aspect of having an evolving theory (or as other games call it, an evolving metagame), and the way we can learn theory to be able to quickly assess who is winning at a given position (a highly nontrivial task), or assess whether a move is "natural" or not.

Is it on https://www.pychess.org yet?

It's already on https://www.pychess.org under the name "Placement Chess".

I see people posting about gungi.io and whilst it is fun the rules don't match the official rules which have more nuance to them. There is an app called "Gungi Online" and it is the official gungi game 1:1.

Yes

After six months of working on and off, I'm excited to announce the official release of Gungi.io ! I was inspired by this post where u/Zaneme and u/squal777 created a detailed rule set based off the game in the anime. So I created a free website where you can play Gungi from Hunter × Hunter online in real-time with your friends! For piece movements and rules, check out the About page. To play just hit the play button and choose a name to create a private room and share the link with your friends. Even though it's a 2-player game, any number of people can spectate and watch as a game unfolds. This is my first project, created with Node.js and React and is completely open source!