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When I was in university studying science with PLC I did a project with a 3d Chess but only two players placed against each other on the two sides of the cube and moving there pieces in the 512 illusionary cubes inside the cube chess. At the graduation I got a distinction for my project and 20000 drachmas (around 100 $ then).
p.s that was during 1982.
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Very interesting! I never thought of chess in multi-player terms before. Adding another player, more pieces, and more rules would make my head spin...  Not only that, there's something special when playing "classic" chess with someone else. It's very personal, almost intimate... just two of you, ignoring everything else to do battle on the chessboard. That may sound silly, but it's true. That feeling would definitely be lost, as the three-handed rules mentioned that most of the time two players join forces against the third player.
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a rule that is proposed is that as soon as one person is checkmated, the only person to win would be the checkmater... the other two lose as the game ends when one person is mated.
“Tactics require observation, strategy requires thought.” (Max Euwe)
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Just loved this chess set (pieces and wooden board). If someone knows where I can get one of those for tradicional chess, not this variant, please point me the way.
About the variant, I found the rules too complicated for it to work well and the guy says he never tried it for the lack of opponents, so...
And without the special rules, two players would surely join forces.
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I have a four way chess board as well as a 3 level chessboard (as seen in star trek).
Nice catch elbutaljib.
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quote: If someone knows where I can get one of those for tradicional chess, not this variant, please point me the way.
i have a very similar (if not exact) chess set. i got mine while i was honeymooning in poland in the mountains. i'm not too fond of it though.. the pieces are wood, but very very light. (but the whole thing is hand carved, though) quote: Only the queen on the left is complete.
i actually thought it was the kings that were decapitated.. heh, but it's hard to tell what's what there. pieces are kinda funny looking
“Tactics require observation, strategy requires thought.” (Max Euwe)
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quote: Originally posted by Tomski1981:
i actually thought it was the kings that were decapitated.. heh, but it's hard to tell what's what there. pieces are kinda funny looking
Yes, that's what I thought... but it's very hard to tell. The set is very weathered, and wasn't taken care of (look at the board edges -- it's chipped in several places).
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Hi ebutaljib.
Yes, I did notice it, It made me wonder in a first moment that it could be a fake image, a computer altered one; he can have photographed the same set in two different positions in order to composite them later. That would explain the two headless queens and two sets with the same colour. But after analysing it, I saw the board isn't fake, but perhaps he photographed it twice using the white pieces in both positions for the lack of a third complete set. As kHollister said, the board is weathered, so his third set may be lacking pieces.
Anyway I like it. It remembers me of a 2d set (it is really kind of a reproduction of a 2d set in 3d) I liked to use. You can see that king and queen don't have a body... only the crown, as in any 2d set.
Tomsky, I don't like light pieces, too. But what about the size? it seems to be very small in the picture and with foldable board, so it wood be nice as a travel set. What about yours?
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