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I do not have Zillions due to my computer's drivers becoming corrupt. I have been using public computers for the past month.
Mr. Smith:
Do you have Zillions? If you do, you can see in the Zillions file alternate opening setups with pieces, as I recall, akin to the 'Marshall' and 'Cardinal' in this game.
- Sam
This is a creative game. I have a suggestion: Have the holes in the opening setup filled with a Marshall and Cardinal.
After five years, I am still a fan of Parachess, and I'm using it as the inspiration for a variant of my own that I'm developing.
There are a few more types of move in this geometry. For example, whereas wave paths turn in alternating directions like the path of a Crooked Bishop on a square board, there is also a possible path where the turn is repeated inthe same direction analogous to the Rose path. Regarding 2d and 3d, David Cannon has underestimated existing boards. A hex board can be seen as a subset of a cubic-cell 3d board, in a way analogous to the e.g. white squares of a square-cell board as a smaller square-cell board at 45° to the original.
Great use of geometry to create a new and interesting grid, but one that is also visually intuitive and should be quite playable, adding new dimensions for movement.
Tony, This PARACHESS board of yours is one of the best I've seen! I've long been a fan of unorthodox varieties of chess, and have been fascinated by hexagonal, circular, and three-dimensional boards. Your Parachess board, however, has a special quality that all others I've seen lack : it bridges the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds, something I thought impossible. A piece riding on WAVES, for example, would bear a striking resemblance to the Unicorn of some 3-D variants. Keep up the good work, Tony!
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