Multilevel Chess

Hi all,

Hope this topic hasn't been addressed before. Does anyone have any
idea about how to play the chess that appears in moonbase?

I know, probably they just put it there to show something that
appears interesting, nothing more...

David Levine

I have a 3-D chess set that someone gave me for Christmas back in 1972. So
here is how you play if you can find someone else to play with or practice
against yourself if you can like I did.
You start off with the piece set up like a normal chess board with all
the piece on the top level.
The pieces move in the same way they move on a regular chess board
with the added factor of being able to move verically. Example: You are white
and for your opening move you can move you could move the standard Pawn to
king's bishop 3, the usual chess notation for this is P-KB3 or your move might be
the classic P-QB4(Pawn to Queen's Bishop 4). But in 3D chess you also have
the verical element so you could also open with P-KB3-Level2(this is where you
would move the King's Bishop Pawn down one level to the next board verically
and out one space horizonally. Each move takes away one of the pawns two space
opening moves. You could also move both spaces vertically for a opening move
of P-KB2-L3(Pawn to King's Bishop 2 Level 3).
For a complete set of the current rules(they keep changing them over
the years)
go to this site:

<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/william_dagostino/">http://www.geocities.com/william_dagostino/</A>


James K.


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--- In [hidden email], SumitonJD@a... wrote:
> I have a 3-D chess set that someone gave me for Christmas back in
1972. So
> here is how you play if you can find someone else to play with or
practice
> against yourself if you can like I did.
> You start off with the piece set up like a normal chess
board with all
> the piece on the top level [extra stuff deleted]

Interesting! James, thanks a lot for the response. I remember that
in "Conflict", Alex Freeman is setting up the pieces on the top
level (looked like in the "traditional way"), but then there were
(as I recall) extra pieces on level 2 or level 3. But based on the
link that you provided, there are some variations of the game that
can have extra pieces. Interesting...

David Levine

Glad to be of some help David.
My set only had the standard 16 piece on each side of the board and
that was how the rules were set up with only the diffence being in the levels.
Since we are talking about chess I would like to say that over the
years I have seen chess sets made using characters from famous films and TV
series. Seems to me that someone should make a UFO one.

James K.


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