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Chess on a Tesseract. Chess played over the 24 two-dimensional sides of a tesseract. (24x(5x5), Cells: 504) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Dec 7, 2023 05:56 PM UTC in reply to Gerd Degens from 05:30 PM:

To expand a little on what I say in the text and early comments from Fergus and myself, this is probably not playable except on a computer (though discussions have shown me how it might be done as a live game). I'd certainly be willing to try it out as a computer-based game; but really, like Salmon P. Chess -- which partly inspired this -- and a few others, the goal is to illustrate more than to make an actual game, though in this case the latter is certainly possible.

I've seen computer simulations of four- and five-dimensional Rubik's cubes, and that was many years ago, so I know that programming this should be a breeze for someone with sufficient tools, experience, and dedication (of which I definitely lack the first two).

Most humans aren't capable of truly visualizing and understanding higher-dimensional constructs, so if this helps even one person with that, then I've achieved my goal.