I’d love to see a chess variant where you could move pieces upside down to the bottom side of the board and make moves and pop back up onto the surface at strategic points. Lurker chess.
What is 5D chess?
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#72I’d love to see a chess variant where you could move pieces upside down to the bottom side of the board and make moves and pop back up onto the surface at strategic points. Lurker chess.
Re: What is 5D chess?
#73'From my experience playing a few games on it against decently strong opponents has been that at high levels it becomes "Chess, but it's much much easier to checkmate, and 2~3 times a game some time travel shenanigans happen." The main reason for that is time traveling and dimension hoping come at a tempo disadvantage. When you create a new timeline, you make 1 move, but give your opponent 2 moves. You used your turn…
Activate the Omega 13?
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#74Lichess[1] is a popular site to play chess online for free. They offer different chess variants to play against other people. Would be great if 5D chess was one of the variants to play online.
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#75I always thought a cool chess variant would be quantum chess where you can move a piece to more than one square and assign a probability to each position. Your opponent could do the same. But I never worked out how it could work from there.
Your description reminds me of billiards.
You have to think several turns ahead, in a chess sort of way. But your "best" move may be a low probability move, so you have to weigh that. Same for thinking about what your opponent may do in return.
Re: What is 5D chess?
#76It 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".
I think of the five dimensions as:
1. Horizontal within a board
2. Vertical within a board
3. Backwards and forwards along a timeline
4. Up and down across timelines
5. The timeline of how the game actually evolves, building out the tree. This is a bit of a stretch, since you can't move pieces through it in the same way as the other four.
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#77Blackjack version, "Hit me.... ok stay"
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#78I always thought a cool chess variant would be quantum chess where you can move a piece to more than one square and assign a probability to each position. Your opponent could do the same. But I never worked out how it could work from there.
There's a quantum tic-tac-toe variant which makes some practical compromises to make the game playable and scoreable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tic-tac-toe
Do players get to share an entangled particle beforehand?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22488927
Re: What is 5D chess?
#79I always thought a cool chess variant would be quantum chess where you can move a piece to more than one square and assign a probability to each position. Your opponent could do the same. But I never worked out how it could work from there.
You throw stones into a pond, until the intersecting ripple nodes and anti-nodes create a pattern that represents a chessboard with your opponents kind in check.
Re: What is 5D chess?
#80I always thought a cool chess variant would be quantum chess where you can move a piece to more than one square and assign a probability to each position. Your opponent could do the same. But I never worked out how it could work from there.
A players mental representation of the game is already that (and you use this mental representation to predict future outcomes). If you add probabilistic moves, the optimal way to play would be to give each alternative move the same weight (ie probability) that you think it will win you the game. You would pull this probability out of your mental representation. Something like, "I think this is the best move, but thi…
or you could use transfer learning to train a chess playing model to represent players play style and ability, and let AI play out the various branches to completion in the background.