[ExI] Posthumanist Games ... Structure of Chess (2D to 3D , 4D , 5D or 'N' Dimension)

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Wed Feb 25 05:06:39 UTC 2009


At 09:28 AM 2/25/2009 +0530, Girindra Pratap Singh wrote:

>Is there any
>possibility to change dimensions of game of chess. Can it be done to
>3D, 4D , 5D or 'n'D .

3D chess was a favorite topic of science fiction in the 1940s and 
'50s, and played by the cognoscenti (and the poseurs, I expect).

Hard to manage on a tesseract, but Rudy Rucker wrote some nice 4D 
hypercube programs that might be adaptable by the terminally reckless.

Damien Broderick





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