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Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Jan 14, 2008 07:26 PM UTC:
Hey, Gary, thanks! I do see a version of Alice with short range pieces and
3 10x10 boards. Although 4-square pieces are more medium range on a 10x10,
which is nice - it allows short, medium, and long range pieces. I see
players trying to set up clusters of pieces as attack forces on different
boards and also trying to set up 'safe havens', connected areas on two
or three boards, where a king or other piece can come for protection. I
like all the possible interactions, and think it'd be a fun game. [Heck,
I even have a preset I'd like to try out - and it does have rooks,
bishops, knights, kings and pawns in it.] 
But this is a toss-out idea on the feasibility of 3-board directed Alice.
I hope others will find it interesting and offer their own suggestions
about Alice mods or 3-board piece sets. 
It's a proposal for a modest Alice variant that hasn't been officially
written up and submitted. Has it been done before? [ie: is it worth
writing up and doing rules for a preset or so?] I offered the expanded
geometry and player-choice of 'Parton direction' [if you don't mind me
adding another 'Parton' to the discussion] along with a question about
what has been done along these lines before. I thought I saw something on
Alice variants a while back, but didn't see anything on a first look.
[Possibly what I saw or read about was an Alice'd 3D game?] 
And for my parton' comment, 'Good-bye for now' ;-) Enjoy!