Like star craft multiplayer, but chess 😂

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da fuq

😂 Want this thing so bad now…

3D print, or woodshop, or laser cut, sand and stain...

It sure is damned appealing.😆

this is awesome

Wonder what’s the rule around that middle bit…

Fascinating...

I find this more intriguing and appealing than the 3D Startreck chess sets I've seen.

Anyone know the rules?

Anyone up for devising a good set of rules?

Chess is played on a 64 square array...

This appears to be a 96 position grid with a 3 way symmetry I need to think about for a while...😳😜🤔😁😆

I haven’t found the rules, unfortunately… It might be just a meme. But damn, an extension like that actually deserves to exist 🤙

It looks like a skillfully home made board. Whoever made it probably also already has a workable set of rules.😁

It looks to me as if the magic takes place in the middle, where perhaps a choice can be made to work with one superimposition or another of three possible 64 position boards...🤔😁

I mean one simple rule would be just a hard wall at the intersections. So you‘d be playing against two players but on two independent boards and with half of the figures in each case.

Some more advanced rules could be to implement a penetration rule at the borders: you can either stay on one board against one neighbor or jump over to attack the other neighbor.

Yeah, you're on the right track, but I see three partially superimposed boards...

You are actually closer to the truth than I thought...

There are only contiguous paths for half of each board with half of each neighbor...

But I could imagine a "space warp" for the other half to either neighbor...

Could possibly be modeled with three separate chess games running simultaneously on three boards but only three armies... And at each move, you decide with whom you are interacting and which board is in play...

May be some clues to the designer's thinking in the grid legends visible on the edges... Note that numbering is not contiguous on two visible edges.

The legends probably also facilitate recording the history of a game - e.g., "Blue Queen's Bishop to a4" ...