‘CHESS — THE NEXT GENERATION’ of play­ers as well as long time play­ers, will find them­selves mov­ing into the future with this tra­di­tional game. This excit­ing game relies on all the reg­u­lar instruc­tions for chess. How­ever because of the dimen­sional fac­tor, there is a need for addi­tional instruc­tions as to how the pieces move dimen­sion­ally. This set of instruc­tions explains only the dimen­sional move­ment of the pieces.

TWO PLAYERS: when the game is played with two play­ers, there are two game boards of 15 x15 inches (38 x 38 cm) each, one on top of the other, and approx­i­mately 51/2 inches (14 –15 cm) apart. The top game board is labeled “A”, and the bot­tom board is “B”. The WHITE chess pieces are set up on level “A” or “B” (which ever he or she wants) in the tra­di­tional man­ner as in reg­u­lar chess. Then the BLACK pieces are set up in the tra­di­tional man­ner as in reg­u­lar chess but on the other board level. There­fore if WHITE is on board level “B” then BLACK will be on level “A”. When you switch colours for the 2nd or more games, the per­son now play­ing WHITE has the choice of board levels.

MOVEMENT: All move­ment of chess pieces on any one board level remains the same as in reg­u­lar chess. The move­ment from one board level to another is as fol­lows (see also dia­grams on this website).

KING Can move to or cap­ture all squares one square away from it
(either diag­o­nally or straight up and down), one level below or above the square on which it is cur­rently sitting.
QUEEN Same as king.
(If on Ad2, it con­trols 9 squares directly below it on B)
ROOK Can move to or cap­ture one square directly below or above the square on which it is sit­ting.
(eg. Aa1 controls/captures Ba1)
BISHOP Move­ment sim­i­lar to that of the king except it can­not move directly above or below
the square on which it is sit­ting (oppo­site to a rook). This dimen­sional move­ment allows
the bishop to move on an ‘angle’, to/or cap­ture a white or black square.
(Open­ing: Ac1 — Bb1, Bb2, Bc2, bd1, Bd2)
KNIGHT Moves like an “L” dimen­sion­ally. There­fore, it moves one square down or up from the square on which it is sit­ting fol­lowed by move­ment two squares for­ward, (side­ways or back­wards).
(eg. Ab1 controls/captures Bb3, Bd1)
PAWN
  • Pawns on their orig­i­nal squares on level “A” have the option of advanc­ing one or two squares on level “B”. It thus mir­rors a pawn’s open­ing move in reg­u­lar chess.
    (Aa2 — Ba3, Ba4, open­ing the rook file)
  • Can move to the squares directly below or above the square on which it is sit­ting.
    Down or up does NOTcon­sti­tute a back­ward movement.
  • Can advance down diag­o­nally straight­for­ward on the file or advance up diag­o­nally straight­for­ward. (Ba4 — Aa5)
  • Can cap­ture diag­o­nally for­ward, left or right of the square that it is on, one level below or above it. (Ba4 x Bb5, or Ab5)
  • Upon reach­ing the oppo­site side of the board on any level, can be pro­moted to Queen, etc., and is dis­tin­guished as such for eg., by putting a red checker piece under­neath it.
  • Dimen­sional en pas­sant cap­ture
    eg. When a WHITE pawn (Ab2) has finally advanced three squares on level
    “A” (Ab5), and the BLACK pawn on level “A” (either Aa7 or
    Ac7) tries to pass by mov­ing two squares for­ward (Ba5 or Bc5),
    then the WHITE pawn must cap­ture or not at all on the next move (Ab5 x Ba5 &
    occu­pies Ba6 –or– Ab5 x Bc5 & occu­pies Bc6).
    Also: if (Ab2) has finally advanced three squares (Bb5) & (Aa7)
    tries to pass on level “A” (Aa5), then (Bb5 x Aa5 & occu­pies Aa6 etc.).

 

How long does it take to play a game of ‘Chess — The Next Gen­er­a­tion’? It takes the same amount of time as it would to play a reg­u­lar game of chess on 1 flat board. In-fact, it takes about the same num­ber of moves as well. Here’s a 3D chess Table.
So, Why play ‘3D Chess’ or 3D Games?  

Due to the dimen­sional fac­tor of this game, the bishop is more pow­er­ful.
The chart below and the games played out here, shows that the bishop is
more flex­i­ble, cov­ers more area, and there­fore worth six points.
The rook is most effec­tive for back­ing up and pro­tect­ing (and on a level).

PIECE: POINTS:
KING:     If on Ae2,     controls/captures 17 squares, & on Ae4  →  the same
QUEEN: 9   If on Ae2,     ‘  ’ 32 squares, & on   ‘  ’   36 squares
BISHOP: 6   If on Ae2,     ‘  ’ 17 squares, & on   ‘  ’   21 squares
ROOK: 4   If on Ae2,     ‘  ’ 15 squares, & on   ‘  ’   __ the same
KNIGHT: 3   If on Ae3,   ‘  ’ 12 squares, & on   ‘  ’   __ the same
PAWN: 1   If on Ae2,     ‘  ’ 04 squares, & on   ‘  ’   __ the same

3D Chess Table3D Chess Table

Put all the above together and Watch a game from start to Check­mate in 14 moves.

Now for a 3D view of the game.
You’ll need those ‘3D red/cyan glasses’.
3D Chess (in 3D)