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3D Chess

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Artemis Chess

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Artemis Chess

Diana of Versailles (Artemis the Huntress)

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. Chessboard

  3. Piece Movement

  4. Starting Positions

  5. Castling

  6. Pawn Promotion

  7. Applet Information

    8. 7.1.  System Requirements

    7.2.  Applet Help

    7.2.1.  General

    7.2.2.   Menu Items

1.   Introduction

This document specifies details for the Artemis Chess game variation. This game is based upon the reasoning expressed in the white paper Musings on 3D Chess.

2.   Chessboard

Arrangement Markings Dimensions
Upright Varying 4x4x4

This board is 4x4x4 with boards not offset and varying cell markings. All 64 cells in the chessboard volume are usable.

3.   Piece Movement

Piece Moves
Vectors Illustration
Rook (±n,0,0)
(0,±n,0)
(0,0,±n)
Bishop (±n,±n,0)
(±n,0,±n)
(0,±n,±n)
Queen (±n,0,0)
(0,±n,0)
(0,0,±n)
(±n,±n,0)
(±n,0,±n)
(0,±n,±n)
(±n,±n,±n)
King (±1,0,0)
(0,±1,0)
(0,0,±1)
(±1,±1,0)
(±1,0,±1)
(0,±1,±1)
(±1,±1,±1)
Knight (±1,±2,0)
(±2,±1,0)

(±2,0,±1)
(0,±2,±1)

(±1,0,±2)
(0,±1,±2)
Pawn First (White) (0,+1,0)
(0,+2,0)
(0,0,+1)
(0,0,+2)
Pawn Normal and Attack (White) (0,+1,0)
(0,0,+1)
Pawn First Move (Black) -(0,1,0)
-(0,2,0)
-(0,0,1)
-(0,0,2)
Pawn Normal and Attack (Black) -(0,1,0)
-(0,0,1)

4.   Starting Positions

Rank Level D
4 BR BQ BK BR
3 BP BP BP BP

Level C
4 BN BB BB BN
3 BP BP BP BP

Level B
2 WP WP WP WP
1 WN WB WB WN

Level A
2 WP WP WP WP
1 WR WQ WK WR
File a b c d

5.   Castling

Pieces Queen-side King-side
King-Rook (White) K: c1A-b1A
R: a1A-c1A 		K: c1A-d1A
R: d1A-c1A
King-Rook (Black) K: c4D-b4D
R: a4D-c4D 		K: c4D-d4D
R: d4D-c4D

6.   Pawn Promotion

Piece Position
Pawn (White) (x,4,D)
Pawn (Black) (x,1,A)

7.   Applet Information

Launch the applet:

Please be aware that the applet is alpha quality code. Please email bug reports to jmthompson_97@users.sourceforge.net.

7.1.  System Requirements

The applet is written in Java 1.4.2, so your machine and browser combination must support this. The following lists the systems and software on which the applet has been tested.

Mac OS X 10.4.11

Windows XP

7.2.  Applet Help

7.2.1.  General

Chessboard Rotation
Rotate the chessboard by moving the scroll bars.
Piece Movement
Select a piece by clicking the mouse within the square where the piece is. It will highlight. Then select a destination square.
Castling
To castle, select your King. Then hold down the shift key, and click the destination square.

7.2.2.  Menu Items

File Menu
New Game Start a new game.

Concede Give up the current game.

View Menu
Show Hints When selected, the selected piece's possible positions are highlighted on the chessboard.

Show Labels When selected, display the board coordinate labels.

Zoom In Magnify the chessboard.

Zoom Out Make the chessboard smaller.

Help Menu
Online Help Opens a browser window to this document.

About Artemis Chess Displays the about box.