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Raumschach (German for Space Chess) is one of the first three-dimensional chess variants and the first to survive until present times. It is played in a 5x5x5 game space, its rules are a natural extension of the orthodox chess.
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Raumschach (German for Space Chess) is one of the first three-dimensional chess variants and the first to survive until present times. It was invented by Herr Doktor Ferdinand Maack in 1907.
He contended that for chess to be more like modern warfare, attack should be possible not only from a two-dimensional plane but also from above (aerial) and below (underwater).
Raumschach rules are the extension of orthodox chess in the 3d space, the objective is the usual: mate the adversary king. There is a new piece: the unicorn.
One can think that the board is made of 5x5x5 cubes and the moves are through the cube elements.
Rules from Chessvariants.
In the Save are preset 10 camera positions to easily see the floors. Use SHIFT 1-5 for White view and SHIFT 6-9 for Black to pick up and place pieces. Camera 0 is reserved, so you can place up to 9 cameras and there is no setting for the top floor, however being the topmost it is easy to get.
The pieces and board models are from me.
The chessboard levels are differently colored to help visualize Bishop and Unicorn movements: Bishops, even when changing plane, stay on the same kind of cell: light or dark; Unicorns change type of cells (from light to dark or vice-versa) when going from a brown plane to a green plane (or vice-versa) and stay on the same kind of cell when moving from a brown plane to another brown plane or when moving from a green plane to the another green plane.
He contended that for chess to be more like modern warfare, attack should be possible not only from a two-dimensional plane but also from above (aerial) and below (underwater).
Raumschach rules are the extension of orthodox chess in the 3d space, the objective is the usual: mate the adversary king. There is a new piece: the unicorn.
One can think that the board is made of 5x5x5 cubes and the moves are through the cube elements.
- The Rook moves through the faces of the cubes,
- The Bishop moves through the edges,
- The new piece, the Unicorn, moves through the vertices,
- The Knight ignores pieces in the path and does one step as Rook and one step as Bishop to land at destination,
- The Queen moves as a Bishop, Rook, or Unicorn.
- The King moves as a Queen, but up to one step.
- The Pawns movement has been extended to the 3d space and have no starting double move or en passant capture.
Rules from Chessvariants.
In the Save are preset 10 camera positions to easily see the floors. Use SHIFT 1-5 for White view and SHIFT 6-9 for Black to pick up and place pieces. Camera 0 is reserved, so you can place up to 9 cameras and there is no setting for the top floor, however being the topmost it is easy to get.
The pieces and board models are from me.
The chessboard levels are differently colored to help visualize Bishop and Unicorn movements: Bishops, even when changing plane, stay on the same kind of cell: light or dark; Unicorns change type of cells (from light to dark or vice-versa) when going from a brown plane to a green plane (or vice-versa) and stay on the same kind of cell when moving from a brown plane to another brown plane or when moving from a green plane to the another green plane.