George Duke wrote on Mon, Jan 14, 2008 02:20 PM EST:
Joe Joyce's 'invention' here is old hat, ''so yesterday'' for Alice
Chess, certainly creative enough for its time. There are number of spinoffs already, easy to find by conscientious researcher, on mediocre-playing Alice. Touting my own first here, as customary among modern prolificists, year 2004 '3D Positional Chess' fits the bill in having multiple boards interacting. 'Alice-like' 3D Positonal Chess discloses 8x8x2 2 boards, 7x7x3 3 boards (147 squares), 6x6x4 4 boards (144 squares) for pieces to transfer among upon promotion -- the novelty. Offhand Joyce's so many as 192 squares would be especially unplayable with short-range pieces, arbitrarily limited to 2 or 3 squares. The unpalatable oversizing is reminiscent of that author's recent poor Chieftain Chess, exactly 192 too. Invariably, well-intentioned good-natured, unoriginal 'designer' Joe Joyce will ignore prior art called to attention, so we leave it at 3D Positional Chesses.
