Capture those enemy pieces and have them work for you!

Dragonfly was conceived as an afterthought after the invertion of Loonybird, and thus may be considered as 'normal Loonybird'.

The differences with orthodox Chess:

• The pieces are the same as in Chess, but for the option to re-enter them. If a piece is captured, it becomes the captor's property and he may drop it, at the cost of a turn, on any empty square. Until dropped, the captured piece stays put beside the captor's side of the board. As in all systems that feature the re-entering of pieces, this is called a 'piece in hand'.
• Pawns are the same as in orthodox Chess, but are not allowed the initial double step. They promote on moving to the far side to a piece the opponent has in hand. Pawns, if captured, are out of the game.
• The King is the same as in orthodox Chess. He has a castling option with both rooks under the usual conditions (King to f1, rook to e1 or King to b1, rook to c1). It's not allowed to castle with a rook that has previously been dropped.

• As in Dragonfly, pawns move one cell forward, without the option of an initial double step. Different from Dragonfly, pawns do not capture diagonally forward, but obliquely forward to a directly adjacent cell. Thus in the initial position, all pawns except the three backmost ones, are covered by one or two friendly pawns!

Try Dragonfly on both a square board and a hexagon board...

Dragonfly is just one of the games invented by Christian Freeling; they can all be seen, and some of them played, on the internet in the MindSports ArenA.