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Joe Joyce wrote on Sun, Sep 17, 2006 04:07 PM UTC:
This seems very interesting but I don't see exactly how it works. Is it
really a 3D game played on 2 boards, like Alice Chess, except changing
boards is voluntary, or is it something else? The description indicates it
easily could fall into that controversial area of '4D' games, as it seems
you describe a variant played on 2 totally different 2D boards, with free
movement between them. Or even 1 standard 2D board, and 1 maybe
3D-mimicing smaller board. The 16 square 4x4 board does have 2x2
'subsets' of squares within each square, if I've read everything right,
or does it? Depending on the exact movement rules, the game/board you
describe could act as a 3D, 4D, or even 5D playing surface. 
Personally, I hope you are doing a 'higher-dimensional' game, and would
refer you to Parton's Sphinx Chess, Aikin's Chesseract and my own
Hyperchess for 3 similar '4D' treatments. I would strongly recommend
looking at LL Smith's and Dan Troyka's 4D, 5D, and 6D games, which
illustrate rather nicely the use of higher space dimensions in chess, even
though some see them all as convoluted examples of 3D. Welcome to the
debate.

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