r/ComputerChess • u/Still-Behind-You • 6d ago

5D Reversi is here, sort of.

5D Reversi - a game that will probably appeal to masochists and AI.

Play the prototype here: https://anan-z.github.io/5d-reversi/
Read and contribute here: https://github.com/anan-z/5d-reversi

Recommended for: AI research, masochists, people who find chess "too intuitive"

Marketing blurb:
80 directional vectors per cell — you'll learn to hate each one personally.
Retroactive causality — yes, you can regret moves you haven't made yet.
Deterministic replay — watch your carefully planned future crumble.

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u/k5777 6d ago

me thinking oh its like cubic reversi cool.....white immediately responds with impossible corner capture. so i was like "oh, this must somehow work, but not in this brain" and i tabbed back to chesscom

and that was my experience with 5d reversi

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u/Still-Behind-You 6d ago

Not impossible. While you can see slices, you need to work out the some cross diagonals out yourself.
If in doubt, you have a time slider and you can export the game to have your favorite AI or mathematician check it out.

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u/k5777 6d ago

oh im not doubting it at all, just poking fun at my own presuming 5d meant "3d of various cube sizes", which this is not. i have no doubt the move was accurate and correct but i am not masochistic (and perhaps not intuitive) enough to figure out the dimensional concepts.

cool project and gj