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3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess Lot of games you cou

3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess 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_Multiverse_Time_Travel/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Mul... There is a discord linked in the game help menu where people are discussing lot of things including how to create a bot. For the lazy: https://discord.gg/8kQhp6 https://discord.gg/8kQhp6 Edit: removed mobile url.

mey 6y ago
Some people are currently playing it on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/5D%20Chess%20With%20Multiverse%20Time%20Travel https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/5D%20Chess%20With%20Mul...
LeoPanthera 6y ago
Non-mobile URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess
ansible 6y ago
> 3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess I was crazy enough as a high-schooler to actually build (with the help of my father) a 3D chess "board". It was mostly plywood, with eight 8x8 boards stacked vertically. I had previously gotten a "3D" chess board which was just three 8x8 boards. They weren't making Star Trek tri-dimensional chess sets back then. With the 8x8x8 3D board, movement rules for 2D chess have a "natural" expansion to 3D, with only a few corner cases. White player's non-pawn pieces start out on the bottom board, with the pawns on the next board up. In practice, it was hard to visualize how the game was going in general. We were constantly standing up and crouching to see. Only one of my friends wanted to play, and he only lasted about half a game. :-( With the failure to interest my friends, I had intended to write my own chess program to play it. I had started out with the 2D version, and was then intending to expand it later. The original was written in BASIC... and that did not go too well.
- nicoburns 6y ago
  I imagine it'd be quite hard to trap your opponent with an extra dimension to escape in. Perhaps the board should be smaller to compensate. Regular (2d) Connect 4 is played on a 6x7 board. But 3d Connect 4 is played on a 4x4x4 board.

mey 6y ago

Some people are currently playing it on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/5D%20Chess%20With%20Multiverse%20Time%20Travel https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/5D%20Chess%20With%20Mul...

LeoPanthera 6y ago

Non-mobile URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess

ansible 6y ago

> 3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess I was crazy enough as a high-schooler to actually build (with the help of my father) a 3D chess "board". It was mostly plywood, with eight 8x8 boards stacked vertically. I had previously gotten a "3D" chess board which was just three 8x8 boards. They weren't making Star Trek tri-dimensional chess sets back then. With the 8x8x8 3D board, movement rules for 2D chess have a "natural" expansion to 3D, with only a few corner cases. White player's non-pawn pieces start out on the bottom board, with the pawns on the next board up. In practice, it was hard to visualize how the game was going in general. We were constantly standing up and crouching to see. Only one of my friends wanted to play, and he only lasted about half a game. :-( With the failure to interest my friends, I had intended to write my own chess program to play it. I had started out with the 2D version, and was then intending to expand it later. The original was written in BASIC... and that did not go too well.

nicoburns 6y ago
I imagine it'd be quite hard to trap your opponent with an extra dimension to escape in. Perhaps the board should be smaller to compensate. Regular (2d) Connect 4 is played on a 6x7 board. But 3d Connect 4 is played on a 4x4x4 board.