If you are interested in 3D chess- do you know about
Parmen? It plays Star Trek 3D chess. Let me know if
you are wanting more info- I'm in the club that plays
it on the net.
--- "R.H. Winter" <ima_potzer@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you get this thing finished, I will give you a
> write-up in chessville.com
>
> I've been meaning for some time to do a piece on 3-D
> chess.
>
> Please be sure to keep meinformed,
>
> Bob
>
> phizzzt <phizzzt@...> wrote:
> Hello William et al.,
>
> I have been working on a 3D version of Millenium 3D
> Chess* for a
> little while now. There should be a screen shot of
> the "beta" board
> and characters at this location:
>
> http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~wilsonk/3dchess.gif
>
> The game has NO game AI (artificial intelligence),
> as yet, and the
> moving of the pieces is completely controlled by
> the users without
> restrictions (ie. one could plop two pawns on the
> same square). This
> is truly "beta", at this point ;)
>
> You may be able to see a couple things on the board
> -- the white Queen
> is highlighted in green, since it is the currently
> chosen piece for
> the white player. There is also a square sized blue
> outline just in
> front of the queens pawn...this is where the
> currently selected piece
> will move to.
>
> You probably can't see the third level chess board,
> but it is
> there...it is just that the view is too narrow to
> show all the pieces
> and all three boards with a clear view ;) You may
> also notice the
> pieces don't look very
> "smooth/sophisticated"...this is because I am
> just catering to a low common denominator here (ie.
> no hardware
> acceleration for the 3d graphics)...but I can
> change the models for
> each piece later. There are also a few pixels out
> of place but that
> resolves itelf when you zoom in or out to view the
> pieces more clearly
> (it is a slight rendering problem).
>
> I am working on reading PGN right now so that you
> could watch the
> games from the library being played out. This will
> also give me the
> ability to email "game files" back and forth to
> move the pieces with a
> partner. Of course, the game AI for playing against
> a computer will be
> the hard part, but that will come later.
>
> This game should be available for Linux, MacOSX and
> Windows, but I
> have only tested Linux/Mac so far.
>
> Let me know what you think,
> K.Wilson
>
> P.S. I understand Orion has a PGN reading 3D
> program in beta, as well.
> Oh well, never hurts to have more than one
> alternative ;)
>
> *Trademark William D'Agostino <---not sure if this
> is necessary but I
> don't want to offend or do something illegal ;)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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