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How do you know if you have won? Or is it about avoiding checkmate in all possible timelines for all possible time travelling moves?
3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess Lot of games you could spin up in this manner. I wonder if we are going to do that for all the board games with tried and old strategies. HN has any suggestions on what those board games should be? Game on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Mul... There is a discord linked in the game help menu where p…
It looks amazing, and I really want to play it, but however I count I only end up with 4 dimensions. A chess board is 2D, time back-and-forth is 3D, and going up/down across universes is 4D. What's the 5th? Are they counting real-life-time as the 5th? In which case normal chess is 3D, which seems like an abuse of terms.
How do you know if you have won? Or is it about avoiding checkmate in all possible timelines for all possible time travelling moves?
I'd think the same way you know you won regular chess. You capture the opponent's king. Checkmate is just an acknowledgement that the current player has no way of avoiding their opponent from taking their king on the next move.
It looks amazing, and I really want to play it, but however I count I only end up with 4 dimensions. A chess board is 2D, time back-and-forth is 3D, and going up/down across universes is 4D. What's the 5th? Are they counting real-life-time as the 5th? In which case normal chess is 3D, which seems like an abuse of terms.
It's only 4D. I believe they called it 5D chess because they didn't want people to interpret this as 3D chess + time. If I recall correctly, the tutorial mentions at some point that the 5th dimension is "unused".
How do you know if you have won? Or is it about avoiding checkmate in all possible timelines for all possible time travelling moves?
I have no idea what high-level play will end up looking like, but the streamer from whom I learned the above [0] said that the most common way to win is to mate a king on a board in the past. Those already have their options of escaping an attack restricted by ordinary chess rules; it gets worse when you can make additional threats from the future.
3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess Lot of games you could spin up in this manner. I wonder if we are going to do that for all the board games with tried and old strategies. HN has any suggestions on what those board games should be? Game on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Mul... There is a discord linked in the game help menu where p…