Chess field: fantasy reality

The standard square chess field,calculated on the game of two people, on many intellectuals brings boredom and despondency. The chess field intended for a party of three or even four participants will not surprise them either. Real chess adherents choose completely different entertainments. For example, the party in which the chess field in the form of a Klein bottle participates!

In the footsteps of the pioneers of space

For such entertainments the minutes of the heroesStar Trek "saga and the characters of the novel" Moon Rainbow ", written by our national science fiction writer S. Pavlov. Then, in the eighties of the 20th century, many chess players tried to recreate a three-dimensional chess field. The first and main question that they had to solve was the following. How many fields are on the chessboard?

With a classic option, everything is crystal clear - 64black and white cells. But how should cells of three-dimensional fields, designed for simultaneous chess play of several party members at once, look like? Enthusiasts for more than a few decades have presented a huge number of solutions and variations on this topic. There were also fields among them, which consisted of honeycombs and cells, elongated, polygonal and even round boards.

The first obstacles

In addition to objective difficulties related to thethe embodiment of the chess board, the creators of non-standard modifications experienced a lot of difficulties during the game. So, with the increase in the number of fields, the number of possible variations in the movement of chess pieces changed in the larger direction. Complicating their trajectory, which led to very unexpected results.

The era of computerization has made its own adjustments to the worldclassical chess. Many of the hitherto unsolved problems were brought to their logical conclusion. Fans of extraordinary chess, forgetting about self-made fields, moved closer to the computer monitors. Now they were subject to the choice of the level of complexity and the maximum number of players.

In chess on the calculator

As for Soviet intellectuals, theyManaged to play chess on the first domestic calculators "Electronics". These computers were to be programmed and had their own memory, the volume of which hardly reached one hundred bytes. With the advent of personal computers in every house of the revolution in the world, chess did not happen.

Companies specializing in the manufacture of games,chess did not ignore, but these applications were just as common and customary as wooden boards. One field of the chessboard had clear parameters, which were subject to international classification. It would seem that the dreamers and seekers of unusual solutions are again forgotten. But it was not exactly like that!

The future is real

There was an extraordinary project supported byvolunteers, who allowed to realize all the most daring chess fantasies on unusual playing fields. And completely free! The history of its creation begins in 1955, when the experimenters, like many Soviet chess players, once again became preoccupied with the freedom of choice previously absent in the chess world.

In total, they created and collected more than sixhundreds of variants of chess fields. Thanks to their efforts, the innovative triangular chess board from the television epic Star Trek looks very, very primitive. The initiative group was invented chess on the surface of the ball, spinning around its axis game boards, fields interconnected by special corridors.

As a result, the player has to operate not onea classic set of game pieces, and just three! There were chess, which additionally involved a cube, chips and even playing cards. And the game is blind! The names of modern chess are huge. Take at least the "Chespik", "Shatrang", "Chess Glinsky", "Chaturaja", "Fisher", "Baghaus", etc.

"Chess Glinsky"

The "Glinski Chess" is athree-color playing field, which consists of ninety-one cells. The game is designed for two players. If you do not take into account that participants are provided with additional elephant and pawn, then the set of game figures can be called classic. Additional shapes are used on cells of the third color.

The "Glinsky Chess" received international recognition incertain circles of chess players. The fans of the variation even established their own federation, in charge of which the organization of international competitions and championships. At the moment, the membership of the federation exceeds five hundred thousand participants.