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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 mentio
by neop 6y ago
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".
- archgoon 6y agoThe 5th dimension is just so tightly curled up that, after discretization, just looks like it's not present.
- thelastinuit 6y agoYou. Nailed. It.
- kmill 6y agoIt would have been nice if 4D only ever meant four spatial dimensions, and then we'd have (3+1)D for three spatial dimensions and a time dimension. (And (2+2)D for two spatial and two time dimensions :-))
- prionassembly 6y ago2+2=4D could be for position and momentum in two dimensions.
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- endgame 6y agoI 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.