Star Trek Chess Chess Game Standard

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Schnaubelt, Franz Joseph (1975). Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-34074-4. According to the the World Tri Dimensional Chess Federation's rules, the starting positions illustrated here are quite correct. As they were originally created by a military fighter pilot, to help teach aerial combat tactics, in a three dimensional space, aren't they more pertinent to the original idea of 3D chess in Star Trek?

The Tri-D chessboard was further realized by its inclusion in the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, who created starting positions for the pieces and short, additional rules. When buying partner items like this one, your contract of sale will be with our Range Plus Partner instead of us.The Raumschach 3‑Dboard can be thought of as a cube sliced into five equal spaces across each of its three major coordinal planes. This sectioning yields a 5×5×5 (125cube) gamespace. The cubes (usually represented by squares and often called cells) alternate in color in all three dimensions. Commander Benjamin Sisko, also a fan of the game, kept a three-dimensional chess set in his quarters aboard Deep Space 9. ( DS9: " Move Along Home", " The Nagus", " The Maquis, Part I", " Statistical Probabilities") A knight makes a (0,1,2) leap (the same effect as one step as a rook followed by one step as a bishop in the same outward direction) enabling it to control 24 different cells from the board's center. Replica Tri-Dimensional Chess Set– This set is a fantastic replica of the original chess set featured in Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s.

Captain Philippa Georgiou kept a three-dimensional chess board in her ready room on the USS Shenzhou. ( DIS: " The Vulcan Hello") A replica of the Star Trek Tri-Dimensional Chess Set first seen in Star Trek: The Original Series, with seven interconnected boards (and a rule book!). A group of genetically enhanced children at the Darwin Genetic Research Station played three-dimensional chess by using telekinetic abilities they had been given. ( TNG: " Unnatural Selection") This game was first identified as "three-dimensional chess" in "Charlie X". In most all other instances, it was referred to simply as "chess".On stardate 44390.1, two chess tournaments took place aboard the USS Enterprise-D. ( TNG: " Data's Day")