...As I said in another topic, I've been searching for topics concerning this game (invented by people in Star Trek... right?), and came up short. I figured this forum is okay to post such a topic... If not, sorry.
I'm sure there's people here who play Chess. I'm not that good a player in even normal chess, let alone all the other variants of Chess that come out, such as Hexagonal Chess, or even
Three-Dimensional Chess, what this topic is about. We've all seen Spock and Kirk go at it in Three-Dimensional Chess, Kirk beating Spock, Spock amazingly beating the computer (which should not have been possible) in
"Court Martial" [TOS] or Barclay suggesting a move that places an opponent at checkmate in nine moves in
"The Nth Degree" [TNG], and all other examples of this game.
I've heard people playing this game in real life before, and even seen actual limited Three-Dimensional Chess sets commercially sold a decade ago in magazines! I also heard there's also different ways of playing this game, and probably different kinds of boards... Well, finally I'm interested enough in actually playing this game. Has anyone actually tried this before, or even researched it? I'd really like to know... Perhaps I can beat William Shatner at it some day.