Foursquare chess

[Tom Mazanec]

http://hometown.aol.com/taurusgaming/my ... index.html
This site sell a board that can be easily modified to play the Racconan national game (see diagram in 2002 CD for how their board differs from this one) and pieces.

[The JAM]

I once saw a game of 3-D chess: 3 boards stacked up, with the pieces moving up and down as well as left and right. Don't know what happened to it, though.

[Labrusca]

http://hometown.aol.com/taurusgaming/my ... index.html
This site sell a board that can be easily modified to play the Racconan national game (see diagram in 2002 CD for how their board differs from this one) and pieces.

OOh, then go to NToonz and order TOTQ players.
Now, who would take each position?? (THAT should be good for a lively thread)

[Tom Mazanec]

Since modern chess arose in Italy at the very end of the Middle Ages, maybe Raccona use one of the earlier forms, especially as they have been isolated so long?

[Dapple]

Anyone care to play a game.

[Werekitty]

I once saw a game of 3-D chess: 3 boards stacked up, with the pieces moving up and down as well as left and right. Don't know what happened to it, though.

That was probably from ST:TNG.

[The JAM]

No, I saw it on a science documentary. It looked nothing like the ST game.

[Fusion]

http://hometown.aol.com/taurusgaming/my ... index.html
This site sell a board that can be easily modified to play the Racconan national game (see diagram in 2002 CD for how their board differs from this one) and pieces.

OOh, then go to NToonz and order TOTQ players.
Now, who would take each position?? (THAT should be good for a lively thread)

Brownies for pawns, Quin as king obiosly. Merribeth as Queen!

[Bobcat]

Ahem.. ameteurs one and all.. *THIS* is three-dimensional chess

http://www.chessvariants.com/shape.dir/chesscubic.html

Incidentally, chessvariants.com has.. let's call it a *plethora*... of four-player chess games.

[The JAM]

[...unWARP!]

Good evening.


Interesting. But no, I don't think that site has the variant I saw on that show.

Briefly: three 8x8 boards, stacked in 3 parallel levels. The standard FIDE pieces have starting positions in the middle board (or 3 sets of pieces for each level, but only 1 king and queen in the middle level, not sure). All FIDE rules apply, except that there are 3 (or 4, can't remember) additional pieces, and it's only these pieces (and I think the king and queen as well) that can move to another level, they have similar movements to the bishop, rook, and knight (I think pawn, king, and queen as well, not sure).

I THINK that the show I saw it was "Beyond 2000".

Standard FIDE Chess, despite popular opinion, is not a game of strategy, but a game of memory. The problem is that the number of possible moves is more or less equal to the number of atoms that compose the Earth. Hence, the better memory you have, the better player you are (every move has a counter move), and that is also why you need a cryogenic super computer to beat the World Champion. But even that computer, Deep Blue, still cannot come up with a "solution" for chess, that is, a sure-fire winning strategy, no matter how the game is played. Too much data, I suppose.

With this type of 3-D Chess, the number of possible moves is raised to the third power (or more, I think), so in that case, memory HAS to be replaced by pure strategy.


Zacatepongolas!

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Good evening.

[WARP!]

[Sehvekah]

I know what chess you're talking about, I've seen it too(on the same show as well!), so you're not crazy. Haven't seen it in person though, or looked for it online, but I can take a look and let you know what I can find...

Here's a little something to get started with...

[Kerry Skydancer]

[...unWARP!]

Good evening.


Standard FIDE Chess, despite popular opinion, is not a game of strategy, but a game of memory. The problem is that the number of possible moves is more or less equal to the number of atoms that compose the Earth. Hence, the better memory you have, the better player you are (every move has a counter move), and that is also why you need a cryogenic super computer to beat the World Champion. But even that computer, Deep Blue, still cannot come up with a "solution" for chess, that is, a sure-fire winning strategy, no matter how the game is played. Too much data, I suppose.


[WARP!]

I don't think it's even been demonstrated one way or the other that there even -is- a winning strategy in chess (or which side has it, if there is one). The set of moves is extremely complex.

[The JAM]

Ah, here it is.