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July 22, 2020 7:56 PM Subscribe
That 5D demo video made me sweat. I get frustrated and intimidated playing/following people who are good at 2D. The speed of the 5D video... so many arrows, and directions, and movement, oh my god what is happening, are there people with brains who can handle this? Am I a neanderthal?
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 9:46 PM on July 22, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 9:46 PM on July 22, 2020 [1 favorite]
Tic-tac-toe lends itself well to multiple dimensions, and can be drawn in 2D form on paper of course, working better when expanded from 3x3 appropriately. I haven't played the multi-dimension chesses yet; my brain not work that way, but I've had fun with 4D tic-tac-toe.
posted by anadem at 10:03 PM on July 22, 2020
posted by anadem at 10:03 PM on July 22, 2020
2D Chess.
I was hoping to see the version of Chess they play in Flatland.
posted by fairmettle at 12:13 AM on July 23, 2020 [2 favorites]
I was hoping to see the version of Chess they play in Flatland.
posted by fairmettle at 12:13 AM on July 23, 2020 [2 favorites]
[from 3D Chess link]
★★★★★
Verified Buyer
Oscar Johannesen
posted by not_on_display at 12:26 AM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
★★★★★
Verified Buyer
Oscar Johannesen
Happy
Very happy with my purchase, first class delivery and I live in Faroe Island, a country in the middle of nowhere, first class service from everyone on chesshouse.com, everything arrived in perfect condition, I have made to orders, I both am very happy about both of them.
posted by not_on_display at 12:26 AM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
For “2D chess“, I far and away prefer lichess.org to chess.com.
Neat post. The 1D chess actually captures the concept of zugzwang very well I think.
posted by nzero at 3:40 AM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
Neat post. The 1D chess actually captures the concept of zugzwang very well I think.
posted by nzero at 3:40 AM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
I enjoyed the Steam reviews for the 5D chess. It seems like none of the buyers had gotten a grip on the game at all, nevertheless they gave it thumbs up.
posted by Harald74 at 3:47 AM on July 23, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Harald74 at 3:47 AM on July 23, 2020 [3 favorites]
4D and 5D chess is proof that time travelers are among us and that they are meme-y little shits.
Also, have I told you about 10D Parrises Squares? Actually, I can't because I'm still recovering from the temporal hernia and breaking every single bone in my body. TUVIX HOPE ME
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:17 AM on July 23, 2020
Also, have I told you about 10D Parrises Squares? Actually, I can't because I'm still recovering from the temporal hernia and breaking every single bone in my body. TUVIX HOPE ME
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:17 AM on July 23, 2020
Since a Knight isn't blocked by any other pieces in the "L" where it moves, I guess if you think about it, 2D Chess really is 3D Chess. With only the Knight able to access the third spatial dimension.
posted by tclark at 7:48 AM on July 23, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by tclark at 7:48 AM on July 23, 2020 [5 favorites]
The 1D chess actually captures the concept of zugzwang very well I think.
"Ally" seems like a forced win for Black, or am I missing something?
posted by thelonius at 8:10 AM on July 23, 2020
"Ally" seems like a forced win for Black, or am I missing something?
posted by thelonius at 8:10 AM on July 23, 2020
I far and away prefer lichess.org to chess.com
lichess.org is excellent.
As for chess.com, I visited it when it first started in 2005, and immediately experienced vacation abuse. I contacted the site owners and was told it wasn't their problem and that I could play somewhere else. About twelve years later I looked in again; same vacation abuse, same attitude. I haven't been back.
They have also been happy over the years to enable and perpetuate the fantasies of Stan Vaughan.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 8:47 AM on July 23, 2020 [2 favorites]
lichess.org is excellent.
As for chess.com, I visited it when it first started in 2005, and immediately experienced vacation abuse. I contacted the site owners and was told it wasn't their problem and that I could play somewhere else. About twelve years later I looked in again; same vacation abuse, same attitude. I haven't been back.
They have also been happy over the years to enable and perpetuate the fantasies of Stan Vaughan.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 8:47 AM on July 23, 2020 [2 favorites]
when the eff is miegakure coming out?
posted by Going To Maine at 12:38 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Going To Maine at 12:38 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
There was this look into that 2 years ago, but I think now it's more prominently shuffled out of the spotlight once allegations came out about Marc ten Bosch being a sexual predator.
posted by CrystalDave at 12:53 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by CrystalDave at 12:53 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
One dimension's very like another / when your head's down over your pieces, brother
Is it really over your pieces, though? I think at best we can say your head is in some spatiotemporal relationship to the pieces.
posted by shponglespore at 1:07 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
Is it really over your pieces, though? I think at best we can say your head is in some spatiotemporal relationship to the pieces.
posted by shponglespore at 1:07 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
brb gonna go write a 0-dimensional javascript chess game
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 2:06 PM on July 23, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 2:06 PM on July 23, 2020 [4 favorites]
I was hoping to see the version of Chess they play in Flatland.I found some suggested variants for Planiverse
posted by cheshyre at 3:37 PM on July 23, 2020 [2 favorites]
0-dimensional
You may be interested in the Church of the Empty Set. Everything is found in nothing, including the so-called ‘real’ numbers. Click to learn more! No seriously contact me if you are interested. This is and isn’t a joke, much like the empty set and set inclusion define all that we need to know.
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:57 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
You may be interested in the Church of the Empty Set. Everything is found in nothing, including the so-called ‘real’ numbers. Click to learn more! No seriously contact me if you are interested. This is and isn’t a joke, much like the empty set and set inclusion define all that we need to know.
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:57 PM on July 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
> you may be interested in the Church of the Empty Set. Everything is found in nothing, including the so-called ‘real’ numbers
no evidence exists for ontological nihilism, but isn’t that a point in its favor?
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 7:18 PM on July 23, 2020 [4 favorites]
no evidence exists for ontological nihilism, but isn’t that a point in its favor?
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 7:18 PM on July 23, 2020 [4 favorites]
I clicked on the link for 3D chess here, and now I keep seeing ads for it in my Instagram feed. I CAN'T ESCAPE!
posted by Umami Dearest at 2:27 AM on July 24, 2020
posted by Umami Dearest at 2:27 AM on July 24, 2020
"Ally" seems like a forced win for Black, or am I missing something?
You are. You can complete all the levels. I suspect there are multiple solutions, but remember that white does not need to take all of black pieces, just get past them.
posted by Cannon Fodder at 4:00 AM on July 24, 2020
You are. You can complete all the levels. I suspect there are multiple solutions, but remember that white does not need to take all of black pieces, just get past them.
posted by Cannon Fodder at 4:00 AM on July 24, 2020
You are. You can complete all the levels. I suspect there are multiple solutions, but remember that white does not need to take all of black pieces, just get past them.
It does seems to me that, against best play, White cannot get to the end of Ally . The complete game tree is not large at all. Do you mean you can construct a game where Black does not play the best moves, and allows White to win? I managed to do that.
posted by thelonius at 4:47 AM on July 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
It does seems to me that, against best play, White cannot get to the end of Ally . The complete game tree is not large at all. Do you mean you can construct a game where Black does not play the best moves, and allows White to win? I managed to do that.
posted by thelonius at 4:47 AM on July 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
> It does seems to me that, against best play, White cannot get to the end of Ally
this is a one-person puzzle game, not a two-person competition game.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 5:29 AM on July 24, 2020 [3 favorites]
this is a one-person puzzle game, not a two-person competition game.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 5:29 AM on July 24, 2020 [3 favorites]
> It does seems to me that, against best play, White cannot get to the end of Ally
I'd been wondering this, having started out playing co-operatively and then wondering if it might be fun to go through the game again this time with Black trying to win.
However, at least one of the levels starts with an uncapturable Black knight able to capture an unmovable White king - king capture seems to be a legal move - this is obviously winning for Black and cannot be avoided.
So there is no possibility of completing the game as it stands using best play for Black, and co-operative play / helpmate(ish) is the only possible approach.
posted by motty at 9:12 PM on July 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
I'd been wondering this, having started out playing co-operatively and then wondering if it might be fun to go through the game again this time with Black trying to win.
However, at least one of the levels starts with an uncapturable Black knight able to capture an unmovable White king - king capture seems to be a legal move - this is obviously winning for Black and cannot be avoided.
So there is no possibility of completing the game as it stands using best play for Black, and co-operative play / helpmate(ish) is the only possible approach.
posted by motty at 9:12 PM on July 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
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