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

[Emlyn]

2009/2/25 Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:
> 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

Fairy Chess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess

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