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Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Dec 7, 2023 04:57 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:58 PM:

If you were to start White on the inner cube and Black on the outer cube...

I actually have it the other way around, with White on the "outer" cube (Face 1) and Black on the "inner" cube (Face 24), but the suggestion still works.

These are the illos I made from the tesseract. White's Home and Territory Faces:

White sets up the main pieces on Face 1, and the Pawns and Spears go on the other eight.

Black's Home and Territory:

Black sets up main pieces on 24, and the Pawns and Spears on the other eight Faces. (This one may need some revisiting, since the numbers are so cramped on the "inner" cube.)

And the Open Faces:

I probably will give a different name to 6 and 19, as they have a special quality of both being on the opposite sides of a cube from the Home Faces. Something like Far Faces, Remote Faces, Opposing Faces... I'm currently undecided.

As for the renumbering suggestion, I'm still mulling it over. I'll put my thoughts on it into a separate Comment, probably later today.


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