I asked astra to make playable 4D chess

ljf

A quick reminder as to just how bad I am at classic chess, but this is really fun and brain bending

tlarkworthy

I was expecting it more like a filled hypercube but its more like two surfaces? Probably better the way it is.

amelius

If it is only 4x4x2x2 then this has fewer hypersquares than a proper version of 4D tic tac toe, e.g.: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~r345liu/

hermannj314

Excellent job, this was very fun to play. I liked the explanations, graphics, interactive tesseract, all nice attentions to detail. How much guidance did you give Astra? Did you give a single prompt, an example site to mimic or was there more to the design and make process?

skyfantom

Not astra made but my mom and nephew say it's a fun thing to play https://chesspoly.com ( https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/chesspolly/id6798789898 )

shmoil

Did it also make a 4D chess Stockfish 19 for you?

airza

I think flipping the tiling between light and dark on the top left and the bottom right (or vice versa) would make more sense. Then bishops stay on one color and the knight always alternates between colors (like 2d chess)

thousand_nights

very cool. that being said, I have never not wanted to play anything more than this :D

jtxt

Very cool! (For learning/ease of use, it would be helpful for me to be able tap enemy pieces to see where they could go next. (But with a different indicator.))

12h-qwq

"i made this!" No, Astra didn't "make" anything. It plagiarized from old ideas before LLMs like (2020): https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-on-earth-is-5d-chess

Keyframe

I asked Astra to try and fix an issue in my codebase I've been battling for a month. Day and half later on high and it's still circling the drain. Seems like with each new model we praise it based on toys, but then reality hits the ground soon and we wait for the next model. In the meantime, good ol' brain.

MeteorMarc

It feels unnatural that a white bishop can move to black squares.

navane

There is already 5d chess, it's been out for years on steam. It's very polished, has tutorials and puzzles. Time travel and parallel universes.

omnicognate

I think this (from 2000) describes exactly these rules: https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submiss... There are many, many other such games with all sorts of variations on the rules.

cwmoore

I made 3D sudoku, books on paper called SUDOCUBE, with a coded index for the clues, using Opus 4.7 I think it was, which came up with the algorithm and extended my own pre-LLM Kakuro codebase: https://www.kakurokokoro.com/sudocube