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Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Oct 9, 2018 10:49 PM UTC:

Here's a blurb from a search result about the 1960s Batman TV series episode The Purr-fect Crime (i.e. Holy re-watch...):

"The Bat-phone interrupts Bruce and Dick playing four simultaneous games of chess piled on top of each other"

If this is to be taken literally (and as true), the game being played isn't at all typically 3D chess-like, but rather it could also be played using 4 seperate chess sets (though piling them on top of each other sort of saves space in one's living room).

My guess would be that the rules are simply that whichever game on a level (i.e. board) ends with a checkmate first would decide the whole 4 level 'battle' (unless all 4 levels result in drawn games, in which cases the whole battle's a draw). The moves are to be made one board at a time by each player, say from the top level down to the bottom level, and then back up to the top level again, and so on, until the overall battle ends.

A preset for Game Courier could be made for this 'battle variant' (I'll call it a 'game' from this point on).

I tried a little bit to see if I could come up with more info on this game on the internet, but so far little luck. I was hoping it was based on something sold commercially long ago. Calling the game 3D Batman Chess or some such might be a copyright violation of some sort, but maybe giving it another name, if used on CVP at some point, say with my hypothesized rules, would be okay. Perhaps 3D Chess War (rather than 3D Battle Chess) might do.


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