Notation

Introduction
Since the game “5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel” was released several notation systems have been developed. Notation is the way that games are documented and have been important to the growth of board games such as chess, which has a (mostly) consistent notation system called Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN). This page assumes that the reader understands SAN, and all of the basics of 5D chess.

5DPGN
Also known as "Shad's Notation", this the most common notation in use by open source projects and by the community as a whole. Any notation expressed in the rest of the wiki should use this notation system. Described in this GitHub repository (https://github.com/adri326/5dchess-notation), 5DPGN is styled after the traditional PGN system used by regular chess.

Coordinates
Each square on a board is numbered as per the classical chess notation ( through   on an 8 by 8 board). The bottom-left corner is always labeled. This first coordinate system is referred to as the Physical coordinates.

Boards themselves are localized by their time coordinate (in Turns, denoted in-game with,  , ...) and their timeline index (in-game:  ,  ,  ,  ,  ). We do not need to differentiate between the two half-turns for each time coordinate, as it is always implied by which player is moving.

A board's location is annotated using Super-physical coordinates. Super-physical coordinates uses the following notation:. It can be shortened to.

is the timeline index, it is an integer ranging from  to. Timelines created by white are given the next, smallest unused positive integer, while timeliens created by black are given the next, greatest unused negative integer.

is the time coordinate, it is an integer ranging from  (  on variants that do not start on turn zero) to.

The brackets around  and   must not be included!

A standard game starts with one empty timeline on. Using this notation, the first board of a standard game is referred to as  or.

Super-physical coordinates are written before the physical coordinates:  is the square   on the   board.

Pieces
Each piece is given a letter, based on its plain english spelling:


 * K: King
 * N: Knight
 * B: Bishop
 * R: Rook
 * Q: Queen
 * P: Pawn
 * U: Unicorn
 * D: Dragon
 * S: Princess
 * W: Brawn
 * C: Common King
 * Y: Royal Queen