I'd like to offer an alternate solution to the slippery king problem. I ran into a severe case of slippery king on a 4x4x4x4 board, where I determined that a...
"It allows a potentially losing player another possible option in the end-game." _________________________________________ Clearly, you are correct that there...
... a ... certain ... It is fair for a player to consider the proper material needed to checkmate a opponent's lone King. Maintaining(or obtaining through ...
Most 3D Chess developers have approach the game by extrapolating FIDE into 3D space using only linear movement of the pieces. But allow me to put forth this...
... FIDE ... me ... 2D ... The general concept of a 'planar' piece is quite interesting. But the devil, as they say, is in the details. A planar rook's move is...
Gavin and I are currently playing games in both Prince and Extreme 3D Chess. Each game uses Planar pieces, Extreme includes the Cubic piece. We have...
... I agree -- a player needs to understand the material needed to give checkmate in order to play well. I've seen Zillions, with a material advantage, play an...
... trades ... army ... earlier, ... - ... while ... needs ... Zillions does allow implementations to call DLLs to increase the depth of its decision-making....
"Using the standard engine, Zillions does not play 3D chess very well. The size of the playing field, the increase number of moves for each piece and the...
Here's a silly question... I had some time to kill today, and solved the Knight's tour on 4x4x4, only to discover after searching the messages that Vandermonde...
A programmer can vastly increase the speed of the depth search by not considering each and every possible position for each ply. Using a best/second best move...
If anyone is interested in studying the code of the Sargon program, you can find it here: http://madscientistroom.org/chm/Sargon.html It is primarily written...
The basic forms of 3D chess are played in a cube, of sizes 4x4x4 to 8x8x8. More 'exotic' forms, such as spiral or pyramidal variants, deviating from the cubic...
Rather than "side-to-side", a higher dimensional movement might be expressed as 'field-to-field'. The connectivity and constitution of these adjoining fields...
... of ... adjacent ... from. ... It ... number ... results ... the ... Chess ... this ... Answer: only if you accept time as the fourth dimension. If not, the...
... not ... scalar ... vector. ... the ... 3space ... 5D ... rather ... Trans-dimensional Chess can be played upon a 9 level structure. Just draw only the 3x3...
... is ... Define the 3D field as large enough to contain all the shifting shapes. Then what you have is 'merely' a 3D field that is not wholly accessible on...
A defense of shifting playing fields as representations of higher dimension movement: Given that a field is a defined area of both size and shape, each cell...
i was soooo happy to find this group! but after looking around, i'm realizing that compared to you guys, i might as well not even know what a chessboard looks...
... the ... 3- ... Welcome! Being new to 3D Chess, I would suggest that you start with the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 games. For example: Exchequer and Raumschach. If...
This is in response to the following statement: "The ironic thing here is that I 'believe' in the 4th dimension ("it's exactly as real as the 3rd dimension")...
I wish to direct the attention of this Group to the following: http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/influenced3dalice.html Mikael Segercrantz has developed a 3D...
... ("it's ... have ... models ... of ... like ... of ... (If I can say this with a straight face) In response to this response, I am only pointing out that...
In Xiangqi, with only one soldier, it is not possible to checkmate because there is no promotion for soldier at the last rank, but may force a stalemate...
XingHua means interesting and improving. Xiangqi means chess generally, also refer to chinese chess specifically. So XingHua Xiangqi means interesting and...
(deep breath) I've been mulling over the concept of a dimensional shift which causes White pieces to gradually become Black and Black piece to gradually become...
To date, I have advocated the freedom of anyone (including Bobby Fischer) to play chess anywhere in the world, anytime ... even to the extreme of violating UN...
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