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The playing area is spread across seven interconnected acrylic boards, mounted on a Zinc alloy base emblazoned with Starship Duty Insignia, Command Division. Personalized Gift Glasses Whiskey Decanter Set Whiskey Glasses Christmas Gift for Men Gift Decanter Wooden Box Gift Set Whiskey Gift Set Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which the pieces can move. In practice, this is usually achieved by boards representing different layers being laid out next to each other. Three-dimensional chess has often appeared in science fiction—the Star Trek franchise in particular—contributing to the game's familiarity.

Not only were the World Tri Dimensional Chess Federation rules written by a fighter pilot, to teach three dimensional aerial combat, which is more in keeping with the original theme, they also start the king and queen in the centre files and provide the most reasonable method for castling, as the attached images demonstrate. In Where No Man Has Gone Before, the third episode of the first season, they used a completely different set. Within the context of the series, I presume they were using a spare set after Charlie X destroyed some of the pieces of the Classic set they were using in the previous episode. Behind the scenes, this was actually intended as the pilot for the series, and they just hadn't started using Ganine's Classic set. A group of genetically enhanced children at the Darwin Genetic Research Station played three-dimensional chess by using telekinetic abilities they had been given. ( TNG: " Unnatural Selection")Hi There! Ganine's Gothic chess pieces were indeed used on the original series. You can see them in The Naked Time, and Day of the Dove. I believe there may be other instances. I can tell you that Star Trek Continues would never have use Chess pieces that were not authentic. Loved your article. - Doug Drexler High Quality– This chess set is constructed from high quality materials with a Zinc alloy base and acrylic boards. Please note some larger products are delivered to kerb-side (the street outside your home), it is at the drivers discretion if they can deliver the item to another location on the property.

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Captain Philippa Georgiou kept a three-dimensional chess board in her ready room on the USS Shenzhou. ( DIS: " The Vulcan Hello") Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1987). "Three-dimensional chess". The Oxford Companion to Chess. Oxford University Press. pp.351–52. ISBN 0-19-281986-0.