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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.
KHAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
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.
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.
That’s too absurd for detailed commentary.
#1, hell yea
I as a Star Trek fan would love to see a chess board from Star Trek on this website.
To be honest my being a fan of star trek has been steadily declining undue due to the mere absurdity of some of the sci-fi and unethical characters. Almost every series is half insufferable. I sometimes turn it on for a half hour or an hour before going to sleep but a good half or third of the time one of the random unethical BS episodes is on that gives me a few seconds of more stress than before I turned it on, lol.
But it's the most consistent. Every other variant has altered number of pieces, pieces added in, weird rules regarding pawn mobility..etc.
If you were correct, I would agree with you.
But you're wrong.
The game was voted the best game ever played in any variant. “The Perfect Game.”
But it's the most consistent. Every other variant has altered number of pieces, pieces added in, weird rules regarding pawn mobility..etc.
If you were correct, I would agree with you.
But you're wrong.
Explain
Nah. Wallow in your ignorance.
Just because 3d chess is beyond your compression doesn't make it an illogical game.
There's some videos on 3D chess HERE: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Star+Trek+3D+chess+game
Wait, i didnt watch it but i have 3 boards meaning i can play chess 3d :D ill write how it is
Real 3d chess is only 8x8x8 boards, just like a 3d circle is a sphere, not a cyclinder, and a 3d triangle is only a tetrahedral pyramid, not a triangular prism.
In the movie, "The 355" there is a circular board set up for 3-way chess.
The board doesn't even make sense, let alone the game rules. Its basically like a normal 8x8 board with weird sliced off elevated corners that add some triagonals (3d diagonals) to the normal range of movement, looks like the same number of pieces too, not even multiple levels but like a 64 square board sliced up with random sections elevated and depressed. 4x4x4 chess with the same 16 pieces in a condensed cube would make more sense, but star trek chess seems to be set up to be unfollowable. Like somehow in one episode Counselor Troi was able to BEAT Data in a game of tri-chess, while she was supposedly in check she moved a totally unrelated piece to a totally different plane that resulted in checkmate, while being in check herself Aside from the absurdity of all the crew members somehow being chess grandmasters even against an android, in all the episodes with 3d chess I've never been able to discern how the legal moves work. Sorry, but I'm not buying that the ships psychology counselor is able to beat a 24th century computerized lifeform at 3 dimensional chess with a 7 move combination that the android couldn't see.
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