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Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Dec 8, 2004 08:07 AM UTC:
I certainly never intended to offend, only to express an opinion and
suggest other possibilities. The goal of extending as great a game as
Shogi to 3d is certainly worthwhile, but understandably hard to achieve.
Since my last comment here I have had a page posted
(http://www.chessvariants.org/hexagonal.dir/honeycomb.html) that considers
a different kind of 3d cell: a hexagonal prism resting on an edge with the
hexagonal faces facing the players. It may be worth trying a Shogi variant
on a board of such cells because of its lack of a standard diagonal within
ranks. This still gives 13 Silver directions (1 forward orthogonal, 6
forward diagonal, 6 backward diagonal), but increases the Gold ones to 14
(1 forward orthogonal, 6 forward diagonal, 6 same-rank orthogonal, 1
backward orthogonal). Also of interest could be a variant on an enlarged
Tetrahedral Chess
(http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest84/tetrahedralchess.html)
board, which as the dual of the cubic one has 13 Gold and 10 Silver
directions.