Charlie Roth has a revision of the Bartmess rules on a page called Star Trek 3-D Chess Rules, Jens Meder has a site describing rules to Three-Dimensional Chess, and this site includes the following variants by Larry Lynn Smith: Although he has not published the whole rules online, he has provided a page with a partial description of the game.īartmess is by no means the only person to devise rules for playing a game with the equipment seen in Star Trek.
So, he did, and he has been selling printed manuals of the game from his own website. So he wrote to the book's author, Franz Joseph Schnaubelt, who encouraged him to develop rules for the game himself. After instructions for making the board were published in the Starfleet Technical Reference Manual in 1976, Star Trek fan Andrew Bartmess was excited about this but also disappointed that no rules were provided for the game. The set used in Star Trek was a prop with no particular rules behind it. You can find these on ebay by searching for star trek chess or for tridimensional chess. However, Star Trek tridimensional sets are available with a different piece set. You may search ebay for ganine classic chess, but you will rarely find a set. Perhaps because of their association with Star Trek, they have become the rarest and most collectible of all the Peter Ganine designs.
The Classic pieces are a futuristic variation of the Staunton design. Superba), which shows faces, or Conqueror, which are figurine. The particular design used in Star Trek is called Classic, and it should not be confused with Gothic (a.k.a. The pieces they used were designed by Peter Ganine, who is known for various Chess piece designs. The board consisted of three 4x4 layers and four more 2x2 areas for a total of 64 squares, the same number as there are in Chess. Being three-dimensional and unusual in design, it leaves the impression that it is a game requiring even greater skill and intelligence than Chess. In a number of Star Trek episodes, Kirk and Spock can be seen playing a three dimensionalĬhess variant together.
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