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  • Re: Star Trek 3D Chess

    From Eli Kesef@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Thu Apr 7 03:00:19 2022
    On Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 12:16:42 PM UTC+3, Quadibloc wrote:
    Ages ago, I described a form of 3D chess of my own invention
    on my web site, at:

    http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0603.htm

    Just lately, I've finally added a page on existing forms of 3D
    chess, particularly Maack's Raumschach:

    http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0505.htm

    and I followed that up with a page about what is likely to be
    the only form of 3D chess that most people have even ever
    heard of:

    http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch050501.htm

    There are better accounts than the very brief one I give
    of the rules that had been arrived at to allow a game to be
    played on the Star Trek board, one is at

    http://www.thedance.net/~roth/TECHBLOG/chess.html

    but the significant thing about my page is that as
    I felt there were flaws in the rules that Franz Joseph
    came up with and Bartmess elaborated upon, I give
    an alternative set of rules that addresses those issues.

    John Savard

    Bs"d

    You think 2D chess is too simple for you?

    (Kramnik said this about the normal 2D chess)

    https://tinyurl.com/chess-infinit

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 7 02:16:40 2022
    Ages ago, I described a form of 3D chess of my own invention
    on my web site, at:

    http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0603.htm

    Just lately, I've finally added a page on existing forms of 3D
    chess, particularly Maack's Raumschach:

    http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0505.htm

    and I followed that up with a page about what is likely to be
    the only form of 3D chess that most people have even ever
    heard of:

    http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch050501.htm

    There are better accounts than the very brief one I give
    of the rules that had been arrived at to allow a game to be
    played on the Star Trek board, one is at

    http://www.thedance.net/~roth/TECHBLOG/chess.html

    but the significant thing about my page is that as
    I felt there were flaws in the rules that Franz Joseph
    came up with and Bartmess elaborated upon, I give
    an alternative set of rules that addresses those issues.

    John Savard

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Eli Kesef on Thu Apr 7 08:43:34 2022
    On Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 4:00:20 AM UTC-6, Eli Kesef wrote:

    You think 2D chess is too simple for you?

    No, not at all.

    John Savard

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