Paolo wrote on Mon, Jan 27 10:19 PM UTC in reply to Carson C from Thu Jan 11 2024 09:48 PM:Excellent ★★★★★
Disregard what I said the Jan 13, I finally played few games and I understood what the four color scheme is and why the sentence it is so confusing.
When reading "four-color scheme" one tends to think to four different colors like red, blue, green and yellow. But actually it is much better to think to two different hues and two different lightness levels.
Let use as example, red and blue, light and dark. You get four colors: light-red, light-blue, dark-red, and dark-blue.
With these four colors you can set up the chessboards so that the Bishop always stay in its starting lightness level, but may change hue. The Unicorn instead may change lightness color, but it will not change hue.
A bishop starting on a light colored cell will play always on light cells, but it may change between red and blue. An Unicorn starting on a blue cell will play always on blue cells, but may change between light-blue and dark-blue.
How would it look like? The light-dark alternates as all Raumschach explanations you can find, the bottom-most, middle, and top-most floors have the dark cell in the corners, the other two floors have light cells in the corners. The red-blue instead would be the same in all five floors, the corner would be blue and the other cells have the hue alternated as you expect from a chessboard.
So, the bottom-most, middle, and top-most floors would have the corner square dark-blue, and the orthogonally nearby cells would be light-red. The other two floors would have the corners light-blue and the orthogonally nearby cells dark-red.
Disregard what I said the Jan 13, I finally played few games and I understood what the four color scheme is and why the sentence it is so confusing.
When reading "four-color scheme" one tends to think to four different colors like red, blue, green and yellow. But actually it is much better to think to two different hues and two different lightness levels.
Let use as example, red and blue, light and dark. You get four colors: light-red, light-blue, dark-red, and dark-blue.
With these four colors you can set up the chessboards so that the Bishop always stay in its starting lightness level, but may change hue. The Unicorn instead may change lightness color, but it will not change hue. A bishop starting on a light colored cell will play always on light cells, but it may change between red and blue. An Unicorn starting on a blue cell will play always on blue cells, but may change between light-blue and dark-blue.
How would it look like? The light-dark alternates as all Raumschach explanations you can find, the bottom-most, middle, and top-most floors have the dark cell in the corners, the other two floors have light cells in the corners. The red-blue instead would be the same in all five floors, the corner would be blue and the other cells have the hue alternated as you expect from a chessboard.
So, the bottom-most, middle, and top-most floors would have the corner square dark-blue, and the orthogonally nearby cells would be light-red. The other two floors would have the corners light-blue and the orthogonally nearby cells dark-red.