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Raumschach. The classical variant of three-dimensional chess: 5 by 5 by 5. (5x(5x5), Cells: 125) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Alfred Pfeiffer wrote on Fri, Aug 20, 2010 04:25 PM UTC:

The initial setup of the black pieces is wrong. 
For the correct starting array swap the black Bishops with the Unicorns. Then you get the following arrangement at the Level D:

+---+---+---+---+---+
| u | b | q | u | b | 5  Queen Dc5; Bishop Db5, De5; Unicorn Da5, Dd5; 
+---+---+---+---+---+
| p | p | p | p | p | 4  Pawn Da4, Db4, Dc4; Dd4; De4.
+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |   |   |   |   | 3
+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |   |   |   |   | 2
+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |   |   |   |   | 1
+---+---+---+---+---+
  a   b   c   d   e

Unfortunately also the Zillions file in 'raum.zip' copied this error.

The error does not occur at the old page for this variant: 'http://www.chessvariants.com/old.dir/3d5.html'.

See also the books:
 Anthony Dickins: A Guide to Fairy Chess, and
 D. B. Pritchard: The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants.