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Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Jul 12, 2007 05:12 AM UTC:

All right, here's another way to look at it. If this helps I might include it in the description.

Start of with an 8x8x3 board (e.g. Chess3, Millennium 3d Chess, Nardeshir, Petersen's 3d Space Chess, (Bodlaender's) Space Chess, Strato Chess). That has no concavities so pieces can move within it subject only to intervening pieces blocking Jackals and Rooks. To the top and bottom levels are added an extra 36-cell rim enlarging them to 10x10. The extra cells, marked in purple, have access only to/from/via cells on their own levels.

The 'via' means that the Falcon can uniquely make a step on the level FROM a purple cell FOLLOWED, or TO a purple cell PRECEDED, by two steps between black and/or white cells on different levels.

The restriction on access to purple cells also offers refuge there from the Jackal and Nintu, which cannot, for the other pieces, which can. So the Falcon can take refuge from a Nintu there, where as it might be threatened by one on the other cells of the same level.

You ask what about Dicemate? Well what indeed?? I am not aware of anyone having previously mentioned it on this page.

The idea that I would 'worry' about 'overuse' of any piece I named is missing the point. I take pride in those pieces and am happy for anyone else to use them.


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