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Re:What is 5D chess? by n3k5 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:39PM (#24065330)
> So checkmate in any one timeline counts?

Yes. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065059 )

> You couldn’t do all timelines.

How do you reckon that? I mean, it makes sense on an intuitive level; however, since now we're not talking about Conor Petersen's 5D chess, but the vast space of possible multiverse time travel chess variants, it's not obvious how one could prove this to be impossible in a somewhat rigorous way. For example, what if time-lines end when a king is mated (or wioll fore-when haven been mote [0]), but you only lose when you can't make a valid move in any time-line?

[0] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html

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