Anyone play?
I was just thinking of how interesting it would be to play chess on a 3-dimensional board: 8x8x8, but I can’t find a chess BB to ask about it. Does anyone know if this concept has been done and whether the idea is patented? I know there are problems of where to start the pieces, etc, but thought I could figure that out later with a colaborator. The general idea would allow you to move normally in any given plane.
mrn
over 20 years ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess
or are you suggesting the 3-d chess they had on star trek?
-Imp
Hi Imp.
The wikipedia article is more like something inspired by the Droid vs. Wookie chess game on board the M. Falcon in Star Wars IV.
The 3D chess on Star Trek is similar to my idea, but it has smaller boards above and below each other. That might be fun too, and it has probably been done for public sale.
Mine was a simpler idea, just to have the board grid in 3 dimensions with similar boards directly above and below each other: have knights jumping three boards up or down, and bishops covering diagonals in vertical planes. But you might want a new starting arrangement of pieces to accomodate for the new rules – I don’t know.
If anyone else is interested in chess, there is also Kriegspiel chess in which you play without knowing the location of your adversaries’ pieces (although you can guess because it tells you if you have a legal move.)
While looking for the site on which I used to play this online, I found there is also four-person chess – which also sounds like fun. (If you can find four chess players willing to play.)
Check out this Wiki article:
Rocky, thank you very much for directing me to this article. It is useful, informative, and enlightening.