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I don't know about copyright issues, and this is certainly not a
traditional chess variant, but a 3-layer chess-like game called
'Dragonchess' appeared in an *old* issue of (what used to be) TSR's
role-playing magazine 'The Dragon'.  If I remember correctly, the
layers represented the air, ground level, and a subterranean level,
and the pieces on each fit the theme of the level.  I can dig up an
old copy, if you need more of a pointer and are interested...

--- Chris Carlson

On 14 Apr 1998 14:52:59 -0400, jglover@wam.umd.edu (Jennifer Glover)
wrote:

>I am a computer science student at the University of Maryland and I want
>to write a program that plays 3 dimensional chess.  I was going to use the
>rule system from Star Trek, but the creator of it does not support
>anything that does not support him (in other words, pays money), so I am
>looking for an alternate set of rules that I *can* use.  I am not the
>world's best chess player and I have not really explored the area of chess
>variants before, so I am asking the opinions of the esteemed people on
>this newsgroup to help me out.  Have any rule systems that you would love
>to see in a program?  This will be a full featured program for my 3d
>graphics class with animation and movable perspective and I plan to go the
>freeware way with it on the web, so you would be supporting the internet
>community with your opinions, as well as helping me out.
>
>Jennifer Glover
>
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