I think it is a TV prop.
It's a great looking prop, very futuristic, very science fiction.
But still a prop. A gimmick.
There is already 3 dimensional chess: ping-pong, basketball, volleyball.
Top Gun.
Fighter pilots already fight in 3D space, since WW1.
The model for dog-fighting is volleyball. It's in the movie. The team work in volleyball is the team work in dog-fighting.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Crewmen playing poker is more realistic.
Sailors played cards since cards were invented, on ships with sails.
Fast forward to the future on nuclear powered submarines, sailors still play cards, and dice.
Nothing has changed.
Nothing will change 1,000 years in the future.
I think it is a TV prop.
It's a great looking prop, very futuristic, very science fiction.
But still a prop. A gimmick.
A more realistic game would be Go.
Political connections, alliances, supply lines, borders, neutral zones, territories, borders incursions, Romulan space . . . all Go terminologies.
A spatial-geo-political game is the perfect metaphor for Star Trek.
Cloaked Romulan ships.
Oh, no! We have to fire blind.
We have the perfect training tool for that.
But it's the most consistent. Every other variant has altered number of pieces, pieces added in, weird rules regarding pawn mobility..etc.
I’ve played about 20 different variants.
The best variant out there is known as Trice’s Chess or Gothic Chess on this server.
It's like when they say shapes like the
pryamids of Egypt are "3d triangles".. Nope, only pyramids with a triangle as a base also, are real 3d triangles.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Crewmen playing poker is more realistic.
Sailors played cards since cards were invented, on ships with sails.
Fast forward to the future on nuclear powered submarines, sailors still play cards, and dice.
Nothing has changed.
Nothing will change 1,000 years in the future.
We’ll look long_quach, cards may be more realistic, but 3D chess would be more fun and reminiscent of Star Trek. 3D chess may not be the most realistic game, or best chess variant, but I’m just trying to make it because it would be fun for all of the trekkies out there.
This thread has been totally hijacked
This thread has been totally hijacked
Letchworthshire, although my original intention for this forum was not to have Archbishop checkmate and others like him talk about other variants, this forum has brought together some trekkies. As long as the trekkies stick together, my desire for Star Trek in chess.com would have been satiated. Live long and prosper 🖖.
Live long and prosper 🖖.
In The Mirror Universe:
Live fast and die young.
Live long and prosper 🖖.
In The Mirror Universe:
Live fast and die young.
KHAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Crewmen playing poker is more realistic.
Sailors played cards since cards were invented, on ships with sails.
Fast forward to the future on nuclear powered submarines, sailors still play cards, and dice.
Nothing has changed.
Nothing will change 1,000 years in the future.
We’ll look long_quach, cards may be more realistic, but 3D chess would be more fun and reminiscent of Star Trek. 3D chess may not be the most realistic game, or best chess variant, but I’m just trying to make it because it would be fun for all of the trekkies out there.
3D chess is not realistic.
chess is to poker
as 3D chess is to this new form of poker.
Mahjong.
This is more Star Trek.
This is already Star Trek chess in every way.
Computers. Telemetry chess. Voice activated chess.
Still nobody can show me a single game start to finish. Proof it doesn’t exist.
I understand 8x8x8 cubic chess would be very confusing to some, but to keep it simple just try to imagine the king and queen movements? How many queens would it take to force checkmate on a board where the king might move away to 26 different positions?
Still nobody can show me a single game start to finish. Proof it doesn’t exist.
I’ve never seen a “quark” (DS9 and physics pun), and yet I know they exist.
I was on Japan's ANA airplane.
The video monitor behind your seat (or in front of your seat depending on your point of view) has a video screen.
The video screen can play music videos, movies, and video games.
One of the games was chess. You can play against the computer or another passenger.
It's amazing that chess is everywhere.
An airplane is an air "ship". Not a "star" ship yet, but regular 2D chess is very realistic.
I brought Gomoku to a Christmas party of coworkers.
The guy who played it best (it was their first time), I asked him how is it that he's so good with Gomoku.
He said when he was younger, he used to go door-to-door selling a 3D version of some kind of Tic-Tac-Toe.
It's a board with chopsticks grounded on a Battleship grid.
The pieces are different colored doughnut shaped pieces that slide on the stick.
Amazing, 3D Tic-Tac-Toe.
He also made his own wooden chess set. It took him 6 months to make a chess set. After that he could make anything: chairs, table, shelves, etc . . .
Gentlemen (and maybe women, I don’t really know who any of you are), the discussion of these posts have changed from the original intention of my post. These may be great chess variants, but I want to show chess.com how excited people would be for Star Trek’s 3D chess.
After looking it up, I have found some sets of rules that other trekkies have pieced together from television footage:
This is really detailed, https://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/startrek.html
Also, https://meder.spacechess.org/3dschach/chess3d.htm
So look people, I don’t really think that this idea can qualify as some pipe dream, that is not worthy of a proper discussion with chess.com.
If chess.com is reading this, look at the links, see that it is a real game, and please consider it for your website. Trekkies, please comment with support. Other people, please comment with questions about this variant.
I wish you all a great day, and to boldly help us add 3D chess to chess.com.