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3D chess non-existent?

Did you mean non-existent? And if so, that's not really true... if people have made up the rules for it and built boards for it, it's real. -- Wapcaplet

But I mean, can we really play 3d chess now? Don't we need some kind of equipments that we don't have now? -- Taku 17:43 14 May 2003 (UTC)

Yes, it is actually possible to play star trek 3D chess! Look at the sites I've inserted on the wikipage of Three-dimensional chess: there are also instructions on how to build a chessboard! :-) Marco

Also, there is a very active 3D email chess club at Yahoogroups playing the Millennium 3D Chess* variant which uses three standard 8 by 8 chess boards. Go to http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Millennium_3D_Chess/ or visit the Millennium 3D Chess* home page at http://www.geocities.com/william_dagostino/ --Will 20 June 2006

ST vs Ginga Eiyu densetsu 3D chess

Takuya, are you sure that the 3d chess variant played in Ginga Eiyu densetsu is the same as the one played in Star Trek? -- Derek Ross 17:31 14 May 2003 (UTC)

I am not sure. I will clarify it in the article. -- Taku 17:43 14 May 2003 (UTC)

who do i talk to to have external links updated?

just want to know if i could include my group, being that we have over 100 members now, into the external links?

Observations...

There is wayyyy too much talk to sift through. I'd note that in the SF tech manual (published circa 1975), it appears that pegs protruding from the larger boards allow attachment of the four-square boards either downward or upward. I haven't researched it that much but I suppose it is possible that board placement is flexible as to where it is needed - that is, a vacant four-square board can be moved to another position to be used, but that would certainly risk wobbling the entire chess board; I suppose before starting a game, each player could choose where to put one or two boards to suit his planned strategy.

There was a 3-D chess set in the "Batman" episode "The Purr-fect Crime" but it looked unplayable except on the top layer and around the edges of the two lower layers. There was no room to reach in over the pieces and move them around, let alone see where they were for planning one's move. To spare this being obvious, Bruce and Dick barely touched the thing before Alfred summoned them to the study for a call from Commissioner Gordon. The Star Trek version, which originated at the same time in production of the second pilot, was much better designed to be usable, if undefined as to all its rules! GBC (talk) 14:56, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Original Autorship

Three-dimensional chess isn't an original startrek ideia. The real authorship of multilevel chess is Issac Asimov that brings the idea in the chapter 11 (The Mind that Changed), of his 1950s book Pebble in the Sky. Andreuebe (talk) 11:50, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]