Millennium 3D Chess

Millennium 3D Chess starting position

Millennium 3D Chess is a chess variant created by William L. D'Agostino in 2001 which employs three vertically stacked 8×8 boards, with each player controlling a standard set of chess pieces.^[1]^[2] The inventor describes his objective as "extending the traditional chess game into a multilevel environment without distorting the basic game."

The 8×8×3 geometry is a popular one with 3D chess inventors, and several proprietary versions exist. D'Agostino has made available a free, downloadable set of rules as well as a small but growing online library of recorded games.

Move notation

The three board levels are denoted 1 (White's board), 2 (the middle board), and 3 (Black's board). Moves are recorded in the same manner as chess, using algebraic notation, with the only difference that each square is prefaced by its level number.

For example, in standard chess, White's king starts on square e1 and Black's king starts on square e8. In Millennium 3D Chess, White's king starts on 1e1 and Black's king starts on 3e8. (And so on.)

Example game

George Davis vs. William D'Agostino, corr. 2006
1. N2g3 B2b7 2. B3e3 N3c6 3. N2b3 B2g7 4. N2a5 Q1b6 5. N3c5 Qx1b2 6. Nx3b7 Q3b4 7. N3c5 Q3e1+ 8. Q2e1 Q3c3+ 9. K2f1 Qx1a1 10. Q2c1 B2a6+ 11. 2e2 Qx1a2 12. N2c7 R2h7 13. N1e7+ K2e8 14. N1c6 R1c8 15. Nx3c7 Rx1c2 16. Q2c7 Q2b1+ 17. K1g1 N3e5 18. Q1d7+ K2f8 19. B2f4 Q2d1 20. Bx3e5 Q3e1+ 21. K2g1 Qx3e5 22. Q2e7+ K1g7 23. Qx3d7 B2d4+ 24. 2e3 R2c1+ 25. K1g1 Q3g3+ 26. 2g2 R2f1+ 27. Nx2f1 B3e3+ 28. 2f2 Qx2f2# 0–1

References

↑ Pritchard (2007), p. 227
↑ Smith, L. Lynn (Summer 2003). Handscomb, Kerry, ed. "Space Chess for the Millennium". Abstract Games. Carpe Diem Publishing (14): 20–21. ISSN 1492-0492.

Bibliography

Pritchard, D. B. (2007). "Millennium 3D Chess". In Beasley, John. The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1.

External links

Official website includes free downloadable rules
Millennium 3D Chess at BoardGameGeek

Chess variants

Orthodox rules

Different starting position	Chess960 Displacement chess Transcendental chess
Different number of pieces	Dunsany's Chess Handicap
Unorthodox board	Balbo's Game Circular chess Cross Chess Cylinder chess Double Chess Flying chess Grid chess Hexagonal chess Infinite chess Los Alamos chess Masonic Chess Millennium 3D Chess Minichess Rhombic Chess Three-dimensional chess Trappist-1

Unorthodox
rules with
traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Andernach chess Atomic chess Beirut Chess Checkless chess Circe chess Crazyhouse Cubic chess Dynamo Chess Extinction chess Hostage chess Knight relay chess Legan chess Losing chess Madrasi chess Monochromatic chess Patrol chess PlunderChess Portal Chess Progressive Chess Three-check chess Way of the Knight
Multimove variants	Avalanche chess Kung-Fu Chess Marseillais chess Monster chess Progressive chess
Elements of chance	Dark chess Dice chess Knightmare Chess Kriegspiel Penultima
Unorthodox rules on an unorthodox board	Alice Chess Apocalypse Chad Chessence Congo Diplomat chess Dragonfly Jeson Mor Parallel Worlds Chess Rollerball Troy

Unorthodox
rules using
nontraditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Baroque Berolina Chess with different armies Duell Falcon-Hunter Chess Grasshopper chess Pocket mutation chess
Empress and/or princess pieces	Almost Chess Capablanca chess Capablanca random chess Chigorin Chess Embassy Chess Grand Chess Janus chess Maharajah and the Sepoys Modern Chess Seirawan chess
Unorthodox boards	Chesquerque Chess on a Really Big Board Dragonchess Gess Omega Chess Stratomic Triangular Chess 2000 A.D. Wildebeest Chess Wolf Chess
Multiplayer	Bosworth Bughouse chess Business chess Djambi Enochian chess Forchess Fortress chess Four-player chess Quatrochess Three-Man Chess Three-player chess Tri-Chess

Inspired games

Chess-related
games

Historical	Chaturaji Courier chess Grant Acedrex Shatranj Short assize Tamerlane chess
Regional	Banqi Game of the Three Kingdoms Hiashatar Janggi Jungle Ouk-Khmer Makruk Senterej Shatar Shogi Sittuyin Xiangqi

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