Musings on 3D Chess

Artemis Chess

Tridimensional Chess

Zeus Chess

Applet(Mac OS X)

Applet(Windows)

Zeus Chess

Introduction

Chessboard

Piece Movement

Starting Positions

Castling

Pawn Promotion

Applet Information

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 Zeus 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	8x8x8

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

4. Starting Positions

Rank	Level H
8	BR	BN	BB	BQ	BK	BB	BN	BR
	Level G
7	BP	BP	BP	BP	BP	BP	BP	BP
	Level B
2	WP	WP	WP	WP	WP	WP	WP	WP
	Level A
1	WR	WN	WB	WQ	WK	WB	WN	WR
File	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

5. Castling

Pieces	Queen-side	King-side
King-Rook (White)	K: e1A-c1A R: a1A-d1A	K: e1A-g1A R: h1A-f1A
King-Rook (Black)	K: e8H-c8H R: a8H-d8H	K: e8H-g8H R: h8H-f8H

6. Pawn Promotion

Piece	Position
Pawn (White)	(x,8,H)
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@yahoo.com.

7.1. System Requirements

The applet is written in Java 1.4.1, 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 10.2.6

Java 1.4.1 installed (through Software Update)

Safari v1.0 (through Software Update or from Apple's web site)

Windows 2000

Java 1.4.1 installed (installer is here)

Mozilla Firebird v0.6, Mozilla v1.4, or Internet Explorer 6

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 Zeus Chess Displays the about box.