I can explain! Well hopefully I can. So, normally, bishops move diagonal. In 5D chess, don't think about it like it's just moving diagonal, instead think of it as "moving in one direction, then moving in another direction for an equal amount of spaces". Ok so, imagine a bishop on c8 is moving to d7. Think of this as moving one square right, and one square down. In 5D chess, bishops can still move in two directions like this, except one of those directions can be time. So, 5 minutes 50 seconds into the video, the bishop moved one square down, and one timeline down, squashing the king. Lol, I don't even play this game, I've just watched enough of it to (hopefully) get what's going on. I hope that helps!
@@DrMonty-ng5fo so it's not that the bishop can move diagonally, it's that it can move an even number of spaces, but those spaces must be evenly divided between any two directions, including time? Is that what you're trying to say? Because that actually makes a bit of sense
@@Lightkitty24 Well technically it has to alternate. Can't just move a bishop two to the right and two down to avoid the piece to the immediate bottom right of it.
Strayed towards Homura Akemi and Dave Strider for that (Edit) Apparently spelled one of the names wrong (Edit 2)Mispelled the same name again hopefully this would be the last time
@@Spoon80085 yeah she’s a WGM which is slightly lower ranked than a GM. WGM was invented to encourage more women to play the game, as it’s historically a sausage fest.
I must go back in time to the time before you killed me in the future to prevent you from killing me! Not if I go back in time to the point back in time to when you DIDN'T decide to go back in time to the time before I killed you in the future to prevent me from killing you!
@@sethvandelft4337 this is why you use name tags with stop watches when interacting with past selves, changing the RGB of the numbers to account for alternate timelines, makes things much easier and allows you to track who should be prioritised in defending.
Saw Hikaru try to play this, was actually way more painful than I thought because he couldn't understand how pieces move back through time for alternate reality checks
I mean it’s probably harder for him, having something some specific way for so long that you know it like the back of your hand only for it to not be like that and it be like your hand but it can time travel back in time and strangle you in your sleep. That must be tough
We need a tv show of chess players being picked as time travelers and now they have to train with this nightmarish version of chess before they actually time travel-
" he moved diagonally across reality, but that looks like horizontal movement on the board " Of course. How silly of me to not understand it at first glance
@@Zaire82 I was mainly confused on what constitutes which direction in the dimension / time travel because I know there are rules of movement for each piece so I'm wondering if it takes that into account
Yes, if you believe in that theory of the universes, if not, you got an alternate version where every universe is apart from itself, with it's own physics and chemical reactions, allowing stuff like life to potentially evolve radically different
@@magicsasafras3414 Woman Grandmaster and Grandmaster are actually two different titles, its possible for one person to hold a Woman Grandmaster title, while a Woman can hold just a normal Grandmaster title. IIRC the WGM title is a bit lower.
I'm kind of sad RT didn't read the review of this game on Steam. They are hilarious. "I can now checkmate you in the past, in the present, and in parallel universes all at once, and neither one of us will understand why" "Mentally damaging yourself or your friends for the low price of $12. Brilliant concept, and definitely too brilliant for my comprehension" "It's embarrassing enough being checkmated by an easy bot in regular chess, I don't need it to happen in 16 separate timelines to get how bad I am" "I tried going back into time to refund it, but Steam won't let you refund games you haven't bought yet"
The rules of this game is every "explaining time travel" scene in every time travel movie (minus Looper and The Spy Who Shagged Me) turned into a supercut and then itemized
See this is what I love about this game, you could be playing against a chess grandmaster and still be equally matched because ABSOLUTELY NO ONE knows what they're doing
@@zanderallan4373 I think not knowing chess is an advantage to this game because you don't have as much of a preconceived notion of how chess is supposed to work
@@lilylopnco yeah they are that's how this works and that's why theres more then one bored in a row when you move a piece it makes two one with out the piece and with it.
Oh! I've actually played this game enough to almost understand it! The goal is, as in most Chess games, to put the board into a state that no matter what move your opponent makes, he cannot prevent his King being captured on the next turn, or Checkmate. What's great about Multiverse Chess is that pieces can travel into the past, so you can set up a piece such that it threatens a King on a board that has already had both players make their move, meaning you can Checkmate a King in the past. Example: 4:18 - The opponent can't make any move in the Present to protect both his Now King and the King in the past. Checkmate. If a player sends a piece from the present into the past, however, you can't actually change the present board because of paradoxes, so to resolve that, a new timeline is created, and both players must play the "newest" timelines until they "catch up" to the "oldest" timeline, or the Present. This can create scenarios where pieces are constantly being sent into the past and creating an ever-increasing number of timelines just to avoid a King being captured in the Present, since the game only ends when a King is unavoidably Checkmated, and you can avoid a King being checkmated by creating new timelines that must be resolved first, giving you a chance to Mate before you get Mated, get it? But in addition to traveling backwards in time, pieces can also move across timelines. This means that RT is actually WRONG about the opponent being unable to win with the board at 0:30, as he can use a piece from that timeline to attack his King in a separate timeline. That's why there's view modes that show the boards standing up next to each other, so you can see the lines of attack possible. From that point you just need to know how the pieces move across time and timeline, and most of them are pretty simple, if you take Time to being another Direction to move a piece in. For example, the Rook can move in ONE DIRECTION ONLY any number of spaces, be it Up, Down, Left, Right, or Parallel Time (so he can go as far into the past as he likes so long as there's no piece in his way, i.e. another piece that takes up the space he's on in the Present at any point between Now and Back Then). The Bishop can move in TẆ̵̥̺́͒́͑̏̌͝O DIRECTIONS, so long as both directions are the same number of spaces, so he can move diagonally once, e.g. Up one and Left one, or Down one and Timeline one. This creates scenarios where a Bishop that you don'̷̨͉͇͖̗͖̙̰̙̝̉t immediately comprehend is attacking your King because he's three spaces Left from where your King was three Turns ago. Once you resolve in your brạ̷̛̤̙̗͎͔̦̪͗̔͆̓͒̏̑̂in that Time is just another Direction chess pieces can take, you can pretty easily plot their movement rules just like a normal Chess game. Except for the Queen I don't fucking know how the fuck quadrangles bullshit and the Pawn can En Passant across time or something idfk my first game went for 30 different timelines and I'm not sure I ever stopped playing cuz I played the game in the past and there's a possibility my opponent in the past has moved to create a new timeline that puts him at an advantage and I'm just waiting for that timeline to catch up to now and then suddenly I never stopped playing and I can't stop because even though I stopped in the past there's a timeline where I didn't so Ì̶̛͇̤̥̠͗̐'̶̨̗͇̖̹͙̱̻͙͍̮͖͉̞͐̍ͅm̴̪̫̯̣̱̽͋͒͐͆͘͠ ̷̡̛͙̬͚̬͖̱̍͗͛̊̔̑͛͊̚̕̕͘ä̸͚̥̿͗̂̽̂̈̀͐̄͂̚ͅl̴̺̬̘̗̮̮̬̯̐̊̌̍͂̈́͘ẉ̴̪͉͉͗͊̓͛̀̽̈́̄̔̚ͅá̵̧̡̛͔͔̟͔͌̽̎̓̏̊̓̉̉̇̀͜y̶̧̛̪̝͉̺͉̻̟̼̥͕̯̲̦͊͊͊̂̈́̊̏̑̾̔̆͝s̴̨̨̢̡̧̖̭̜͍͎̲̮̰̔̈͋̒̀̀̕͝ ̵̢̲̭̬̟̥̝̜̟̫͓̽̆͐̓̒͌p̶̣̖͎̝͉̗̊͗͌̎͒͐̈́̔̚ļ̶̨̡͎̖̲͈̤͈̗͚͕̘͙͍̀a̴͎͇͛̒̍̓̓̈́̈́̕͝y̵͕̦̬̙̙̯͕̏͛i̵̫͐̌̽̎̉̍̑̂ņ̴̨͉͈̱̟̞̬͇̠͇͉͂͋͑͌̆̐͊͘͜͝g̸͙̤̖̦͂̀̄̋̑̀̽̆̀̚̕̕ ̸͚̤̰̀͗̈́̈́͌̋͒̑͝à̶̢̠͎̅̋̔̅̔͗ļ̴̛̗͚̲̠̼̙̹̙̜̒̓͋͂̀̑̊w̶̫̞̬͎̬̺̽̇a̵̡̢̫̋̓́͆͌̿̿͆͌̇͗ỳ̵̜̰̻̹͕̯̥̒͒̇̓̈͗̚̚s̵̨̀̃̿̃̀́̒̓͋͌͝ ̵̗̰̜͈̹͚͍̯͓͎͈̮̼͉̒̀̔͊ͅp̶̢͔̟͍͇͑̑̊͗̐̄̔̐͆̾̒̋͆͝͠ḻ̵̨̥̺̹̖̙͈̪͖͊̑̌̑̑̏̉͜͝͝͝ͅḁ̴̡̡̧̤̤̳̘̫͌͗̇̃ỵ̶̛̦̩̥̟̩̻̓̅̃͌͐͗͛̈́i̸͉̠͔̞̳̠̬͈̝̓̈̃͑̃̄̅̐̈́̉̓͆͠͠͝ͅn̷̘̮͛̏͐̾̃͆̓g̸̨̤̲̮̼̠̯͓͚̈ ̴̯̞̙̹͔͓̦̯͚͎͇̫͐̍̍́̐̉͜͝͠͝ṗ̸̢̖͈͓͇͇͇͍̙̲̮a̶͔̖͉̪̟̖̪̮̥͋̄͗̈́̎̈́͊͜͠w̸̱̫͈̬͛̅̽̏͌́n̷͚̱͍̲͂̎͂̋͌̂̇̽̓͊̍̿͊͑ ̵̞̝͎̟̠̲̲̒͂̍͛̒͗̊̕͝ͅt̷͖̙͚͉̂̂̓̂̒̀̿̒̇̿̋̚̚ö̴̢̝̭̳́̐̆̀̐̈́̋͑̀̋̏̌͝ ̴̜͐͗̌͌̂̇̑̔̌͊̔͝g̴̨̛͎̔͑͑̑͆͌͊͐̋̐͂̕7̴̢̨͙͈̹̬̮͚͓͎͈̖̑̚ ̷̮̼̉͒̓̍k̴͎̲̔̏̿̒͂͗͊͐̄́́̓̕͝͠į̴̣͚͈̳̳͈̪̝̝̘̝̥̅̈́͋̑̓̒̉̅̊̃͆̆͑̄͜͠n̸̢̺̰̻̯͔͎̻̜̠̾g̸̝͍̙͍̠̀̍͊͆͗̏̒̓̾̓ ̶̧̺͖̠̜̃ͅt̸͖̝̯̺́͊̍̍̓̑̾͠ǫ̴̹̘͈̹͙̗̜̫͍̆̏̐̆̋͑͌͋̈́̇̒͝ ̷̧̯̦̪̥̥̻͙̪̹̲͇͇̿̈̈́̍ḧ̷̺͖́̅̍9̶̛̪̭̼̠̯͈͗̓̓̀̇̃̕͠ ̷̢̲͈̲̼͉̈͋̾̀͗̄f̸̡̢̤͉̻͖̟̦͖͓́̓͌̃́̇̂͐͛̌͜͝͠o̶̢͇̠͚̅̉͂̎̓̎̋͑͛͋́͘͝u̸̟̳̞̳͖̿̆ͅr̷̤̯̫̫͗ͅ ̸̨̛͕̤͓̮̳̤͑̓̀̿̆́͝ţ̴̢̧̲̰͍͈̖̹͖͇̣̭̫̲͂͐͊͐͗̕ư̸̡̜̲̞̯̌̉̈͂̌͜r̸̻͉̀̌̄͌͛̾̒̈̃͑̒̂̑͝ņ̷̻̝̐̎͒́͌̈́́̾̚͘͘͝s̶̹̮͉̭̙̭̹̣͇̻̈̅ ̸͓̝̠̀̅̋̓̔̚̚̕a̸̩̭̖̗̩̜͒̽̀̿̈́̓̓̌͂͘͝g̵͎͚̪͎̭̤̳̝̓͑͐̈́̈́̆̏͒́̏͐̈ͅọ̴̈́͌̽̓̃͋́̌͒̂̆͝͠ ̸̧̰̥̤̭̩̯̋̍́͆͑̄̀͌̐͘͝͝q̵̛̲́͋u̷̧̢͚͍̳͉̟͔̫̲̭̣͕̍͒͛̔͜e̵̱̐͐̒̒̐͑̎̑͋̀̈́̀ẹ̴̫̫̪͋̍̾͂̓n̷̨̻̱̱̟̺̂͂̎̈͒̒̿͗̕ ̷̨̢̦͙̓̊f̸̧̺̎r̵̰̓̌͂̅̓̑̾͝ȏ̵̩͖͖̳̬̲̎m̶̘͇̫̪̺̹̜̂́̀̋̌̊̐̕ ̵̡̢̧̛̖͚̙̝̲̯̭̪͉̯̺̿̽́́̎́̑͜͝t̷̨̧̟̜͓̗̪̘̮͔͉̹̯̘̾̔̆́̀̈̿͑̑̍̈̽͘͘͝h̶̫̦̞̒̽̌̀̂͗̄̾́̎̋̉̕r̶͙̗̜̪̹̞͇̠̋͜͜ę̶̳͍̼̙̻̤͔̹͈͓͓͙̐̔̐͋̍̑̒e̶̢͍̯̺̭̺̘͈̣̅̓̏͐͑͛̑̀ ̵͚͙̙͕̼̞̖̪̹̳̪̞̱̘̭̃̈́͆̀̇̄͆̂͒̓t̶͖̠̼̟̎̓̄͗̈́̆̍̓̕i̶̢̛͙̝͊̚ḿ̵̢̗̮͉̭́̋ͅͅe̶̱͔͈͂̓ͅl̵̮̫͚̝̜̲̗̟̯̯̺̝͂͌̈i̸̖̤̗̺̫̋̈́͜͠͠ņ̷̞̰̬̤̼̰̟̺̈̇̍͐̈́͌̔̒̓̾̔͑͝e̸̡̪͎͇̼͎̬͗̅̀͆̂̾͊̎͘͜͜͠s̶̢͚̬̟̺̮̜̟̙̥̻͒͜ ̶̺̪̯̑͒͝ơ̷̧͖̟͓͙̺̥̝̣̞̗̔̈́̆͆̎̃̆̽͝ͅv̸̲̪̬͙̱̬̞̰̩͕̹͋͐̊ͅe̴̢̢̻̖͈͓̪̫͎͍̙͓̗͙̹̎͂̇̐̂͒̈́̌̆̓̋̉̕͠r̶̛͓̳̥͚͚͍͂͑̋͐̓̾̉̓̀͜ ̴̢͔̲̞̠̟̂̍̀̕͝ͅt̴̯̮͇̪̝́̊̚͠o̸͎̞̲̹̝̬͍͙͚̯̕ ̶̰̣̣̝̲̰̖̆̆a̶̠̯͖͈͕̠̞̞͍͕͖̓̆͗̑̌̃͑͘͝͝l̴̨̹͚̳͇̭̦͓͓̝̏p̴̢̧̪̫̙̭̀h̵̨̨̛͉͖̭̞̼̣̥̘̲̳̫̖̫̀̄̀͒̀̽ā̸̩̦̮͍̠̎̍̉͌͑̀͑͊͜ ̷̨̡̗̜̠̳͇̻̞̮̦̙̺͑t̵̨͔̰̮̗̥̙̻̒͒͒̈̐̂͒̈́͐͝͝i̸̖͍̞̱̣͓̦̫͊̐̓m̸̘̥̻͕͓̖͍̙̞̄̈̂̑̓̌͑͌͘̕ȩ̸̮̬̘̇̆́́͋͐͛ļ̸̛̛̻͙̭͗̋͌̅͑̄̎̕̕͜i̷̢̼̺̞̜̜̱̹͉͇͈̼̙̿̅͂̋̋͌̆ṋ̴͇̞̖̏ë̸̛̹̲͎̗̅͊͑̈͝ ̵̯̱̏̓͛́͆̐̎̍͗̓̚͝d̶͈͍̟̠̗͕͙̰̳̫̀̅̿́̿̄͛6̸̡̧̛̤͎͙̤̝̳͎̲̞͛́̑͆̉̆͌̑̄
The rules do a decent job of explaining the changes the extra dimensions add to the game. I’m sure if she went through them herself, she might be able to understand it better. RT did a poor job of explaining it too.
RT: *Stacking queens from other realities on one board* Other realities: "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
Ha, i just need to learn it and then come back in time and nag you, heck , mow i can start teching myself so i can learn faster and this new timeline me can tag with me for stereo backseatting
This should be RT's favorite game: Even with all the slaughter, there is a low body count because it is the same people, and it is a war, so he can't be blamed!
To be fair, chess grandmasters don't typically need to be experts on time travel. It's like expecting an average Joe to fully understand the timeline of Dr. Who without any explanation.
@@amokriinprolgiid3409 I think it's safe to say even fans of Dr. Who have no idea what's going on with the timeline now that the newest showrunner has mangled it so bizarrely. Also, my original comment was a joke. Learn to take a joke.
I love this game. Bought it for shits and giggles and now I've played it for over 50 hours. It's so much fun when your inter dimensional time travel plans work out, and even more fun when they backfire and create a spectacular mess with new timelines branching off everywhere. I do recommend the game mode that replaces the queen with a princess because the princess is like a terminator, whilst the queen is a damn time lord. It makes games more strategic, and check-mates far less cheesy.
RT: "Maybe we'll do better against a human, because the human might not understand what's going on too." Human Opponent: Wins by three simultaneous checkmates within 10 minutes.
@FilthySewerRat Time is considered as a fourth dimension according to sciencists, so... 4D chess checks out. Edit : ooooh, "5D chess with multiversal time travel" is actually the name of the game! Nevermind, then.
@@wandering4104 man this sent me down a rabbit hole, we can just state in an axiom that 1+1=2 for us lay people and not care about the paradoxes it forms
Dan pulling all the queens into one timeline has the same energy of the Doctor calling his other incarnations to help save Gallifrey in the 50th Anniversary special.
I understand theoretical physics to the point where I can make sense out of the split-timeline multiverse theory they've built this on, but I still don't understand chess...
AI can't even solve normal chess, which has roughly 10^120 possible moves, which wouldn't even be a noticeable fraction of the number of possible moves in 5D chess
This game has _"I stab you!" "No!!"_ _"Yeah I stab you!!" "No because I'm wearing anti stab armour!"_ _"Well my sword is magic and can go though anti stab armour"_ Vibes to it
@@lostline4007 Yes and no. Back to the future is being played across a board state in the past, and the future is also in the past. Even more so since we're past those points in time.
@@rendomstranger8698 Dude I'm still recovering from trying to understand how a piece can protect itself across timelines and stuff. I feel like if I try to go for a round of this I'll have an aneurysm, props to you for actually understanding what's going on.
@@GabrielShitposting Honestly, it's not that difficult to understand the movement once you realize that the game simply is 4 dimensional chess. With the coordinates being x, y, t and d. Pieces can exchange their movement along the x or y dimension for movements along the t and d dimension. With the king and queen being able to choose along how many dimensions they move as they can do the same in normal chess (normal or diagonal). The time travel and parallel universes are that makes this game difficult to understand. If it was just normal 4 dimensional chess, it would only be slightly more difficult to understand than regular chess.
@@rendomstranger8698 I can somewhat get the picture of the additional axis, but, indeed, it's the time travel and locking/unlocking timelines that kill me.
@@GabrielShitposting There is no locking or unlocking of timelines. The rules are simply that you have to make a move on every board in the present. The present is the furthest board on the left where it is your turn. Other than that, you can only make 1 move on each board. If a move has already been made, you create a new timeline by travelling to that board. And you can only create 1 more active timeline than your opponent at any given point. Your opponent can freely ignore any timelines you create after that point until they create a new timeline.
Basically you play the oldest playable board until it's caught up. Fun fact, since rooks move in a straight line / back in time on the same spot of that board, there's a gambit called Jurassic Rook, where ya just yeet the boi waaaay back and basically restart the game with a room from another board. This exploits that feature of playing till ya caught up you see. For the record I barely know what I'm talking about myself but that gambit made me break down in laughter.
I just wanna clarify one thing; you can't just keep traveling back in time trying to stall the game forever, because each player can only create 1 or 2 (I don't fully remember) more timelines than the other player. So as long as YOU don't create a new timeline, the opponent can only create 1 or 2 more timelines. After that, any newly created timelines by that opponent are not manditory to play on (in other words it doesn't push back the "present" timeline).
If you exist as a being locked into an advancing time perception such as ours then you probably don't understand time travel. I don't think anyone actually does
It just seems so different from normal chess that you have to learn it anew. Once you grasp it though it's... Well, still more complicated than normal chess, but definitely not rocket science either. xD
@@Buphido Yup, but even then I really enjoyed the first couple matches where I was confused, but once I understood it, it felt like it mostly had lost it's novelty.
This is honestly one of the most amazing ideas for a game I've ever seen. As if the number of possibilities in _regular_ chess wasn't already massive...
@@KaosFireMaker In the games description it states that they purposely named it that to differentiate it from the very different 3D chess and just treat the 3rd dimension as unused. This also kinda works out since intuitively you wouldn't give the slot of "3rd dimension" to anything other than a spatial one.
Funny you mention that, because on the official 5d chess discord server, people have already built strategies and openings, and one of them is called the "Terminator Gambit"
@@ParkingCars basically this, it's more like 3d/4d chess than actual 5d really because you only really have 4 different main directions you have to worry about 2d is normal chess, then you have the parallel universes (up and down) and time (left and right) which then makes it 4d
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My brain has perished
Tenet in a nutshell
hi rt
6D chess
I didn’t even play the game and my brain is fried
mine too
"Just look at the board state"
Mhm, yep, yes, pieces, yes mhm
Yeah you just move to alternate reality in the past, yup yup
@@intheshadowofathousandbean563
Nice pfp
@@TabooGroundhog memento mori
It's board states really
mmhmm and the ones wearing hats are important correct?
"Are you having a stroke?"
"No"
"Would you like to?"
Please, thank you.
Yes
Do I have a choice
@@Istrianprincess no
@@KitsuneGB-hc9zb*Branching Timeline* "But also yes."
I travelled two months into the future and still don't understand how that king survived our big-brain attack, Sir
Love you anna for your great content. ❤❤This was bonkers though 😂
I can explain! Well hopefully I can.
So, normally, bishops move diagonal.
In 5D chess, don't think about it like it's just moving diagonal, instead think of it as "moving in one direction, then moving in another direction for an equal amount of spaces".
Ok so, imagine a bishop on c8 is moving to d7. Think of this as moving one square right, and one square down.
In 5D chess, bishops can still move in two directions like this, except one of those directions can be time. So, 5 minutes 50 seconds into the video, the bishop moved one square down, and one timeline down, squashing the king.
Lol, I don't even play this game, I've just watched enough of it to (hopefully) get what's going on. I hope that helps!
Im barely following
@@DrMonty-ng5fo so it's not that the bishop can move diagonally, it's that it can move an even number of spaces, but those spaces must be evenly divided between any two directions, including time? Is that what you're trying to say? Because that actually makes a bit of sense
@@Lightkitty24 Well technically it has to alternate. Can't just move a bishop two to the right and two down to avoid the piece to the immediate bottom right of it.
RT sounds like a mad scientist who’s just invented time travel and doesn’t really understand it himself
With a microwave, banana and a cell phone?
Cause honestly, that’s what steins gate is
@@bobcake8904 love that show
I AM MAD SCIENTIST
Wibbly wobbly timey whimey.
@@MagnumCarta YA SUNAVA BITCH
"I don't need to worry about this board (timeline) anymore"
- Every tragic time travel protagonist immediately before the tragedy occurs
Strayed towards Homura Akemi and Dave Strider for that
(Edit) Apparently spelled one of the names wrong
(Edit 2)Mispelled the same name again hopefully this would be the last time
That is a beautiful pfp
MY NAME IS HOUOUIN KYOUMA
@@sfisher923 Hahah forgot about good ol' time hopping Dave Strider
Subaru be like
Chrono Trigger music is so fitting for this.
Hold a championship for this please
Absolutely.
@@John-yr1ww gosh a timelimit on this just sounds evil.
I expect the moist man himself do a big brain move on this version of chess
@@kingly456 he will win the game in Negative moves
The chess grandmaster is just as confused as everyone and that's fucking hilarious
They're even more confused, because the standard gameplay is so ingrained in their mind.
The grandmaster is also Kevin GF
I think she’s a Woman Grandmaster, which is between IM and GM, I could be wrong though
@@Spoon80085 yeah she’s a WGM which is slightly lower ranked than a GM.
WGM was invented to encourage more women to play the game, as it’s historically a sausage fest.
@@kylenakamura4353 So there’s a WGM, but are women able to also become Grand Masters? And if so, can a single woman hold both titles at the same time?
This game has the ultimate "but I teleported behind you" "but I'm invincible" "but I'm invincible times infinity" vibe to it.
no, u.
@@jeffreymcmullen3094 no. You
@@DomGaming-qd3vr no, you.
@@wolfyismissing8351 nay, thee
*hits*
*Dodges*
No Its unblockable
*Hits and it's not blockable or dodgeable*
*D o d g e s*
This game is like how I'd imagine a realistic fight between two time travellers would happen
I must go back in time to the time before you killed me in the future to prevent you from killing me!
Not if I go back in time to the point back in time to when you DIDN'T decide to go back in time to the time before I killed you in the future to prevent me from killing you!
And they end up sitting down with a pencil and paper trying to figure out what's going on
Literally if two armies fought except EVERY SINGLE PERSON in both armies are capable of time travel
@@sethvandelft4337 this is why you use name tags with stop watches when interacting with past selves, changing the RGB of the numbers to account for alternate timelines, makes things much easier and allows you to track who should be prioritised in defending.
Time War . . . this with millions of pieces is the Doctor Who time war.
**Reads title**
So Chess but you can reverse when you make a mistake?
**First 10 seconds**
Wait what
That is the most roundabout, but correct way too explain this game.
Chess but undo moves will eat your soul and burn your brain.
Chess but undoing a move costs 1 brain cell and you’ve only got like 3 left
Dan: "He pushed the present back"
Anna Rudolph, World renowned Chess Champion: *Brain.exe has crashed*
Brain melted
Also, nice profile pic!
Saw Hikaru try to play this, was actually way more painful than I thought because he couldn't understand how pieces move back through time for alternate reality checks
I mean it’s probably harder for him, having something some specific way for so long that you know it like the back of your hand only for it to not be like that and it be like your hand but it can time travel back in time and strangle you in your sleep. That must be tough
Anna Rudolph, World-renowned Chess Champion (also Kevin's girlfriend but don't tell Daniel).
Must be a new chess move.
"I just performed a castle"
"Ah yes, well I just pushed the present back"
This game was definitely created with the purpose to teach people who are training to be time travelers.
We need a tv show of chess players being picked as time travelers and now they have to train with this nightmarish version of chess before they actually time travel-
Nah, in the Academy we had more complex stuff to do.
Thank goodness how helpful
@@fiiral5870 What field of study?
@@benrex7775 the art of 5th dimensional war
For a moment RT seemed like he fully understood. Then he started making a singularity of queens
New goal: fill an entire board with queens.
The queengularity
He's beginning to believe
That doesn't sound very Irish of him...
He's a British plant - get him!
@@drunkenhobo8020 nonono-he's restoring the Irish monarchy.
“It’s actually quite simple you see-“
But what if i don't see
You just don't
You're just not thinking with -portals- multiverse time travel
"Its actually surprisingly simple"
SHUT IT
This seems like the kind of game you'd give an immortal entity to distract it from wiping out all of humanity
I’d watch that movie.
Thing is that immortal entity might be a 6th dimensional being
Kekkai Sensen be like
"Dormamu I've come to play chess."
The Sky Above The Port?
This is why time travel shouldn’t exist.
Agreed
The hilarious thing is, this is what it'd be like if backwards time travel were possible
@@Canadian_Zac if the theory would be correct.
This is exactly the reason why it absolutely should.
Isn’t this what caused the great time war in doctor who or something like that
“How do you expect to outrun me...”
*sends queen back to turn 1*
“WHEN I AM ALREADY HERE?”
This reminds me of a certain comic about a 13 year old boy and his 3 pals playing a really weird game before accidentally ending their universe.
Homestuck really was just one huge game of 4D Chess
Snowman was playing the long game
Knew at least one person was going to make the homestuck joke. It was even more inevitable than Lord English being here.
god dammit windy boy
Teacher: Don't worry the test isn't that difficult
The test:
I mean it IS quite simple. If someone would explain chess to me...
is it bad that I understand the time travel stuff better than the rules of chess?
@@glenngriffon8032 I don't think so, I kinda understand the rules of this whole timeline thing already
@@lucykitsune4619 I'm the same way. The rules of Chess are much more confusing than the rules of time travel.
@@glenngriffon8032 yes you naughty
" he moved diagonally across reality, but that looks like horizontal movement on the board "
Of course. How silly of me to not understand it at first glance
That was actually the only thing I understood.
@@Zaire82 I still don't, really.
So is horizontal movement the time travel and diagonal movement the reality travel? I'm so confused
@@Kimmie6772 Moving _on_ the same board is reality travel, moving _to_ another board is time/alternate dimension travel.
@@Zaire82 I was mainly confused on what constitutes which direction in the dimension / time travel because I know there are rules of movement for each piece so I'm wondering if it takes that into account
This screams "kills you" "dodges" "un-dodges"
Ah yes, the power players.
ok but how the heck do you "un-dodge"?
@@Techy404 that’s for you to find out and for us to worry about
@@lotto5498 well, i am going on an adventure!
@@Techy404 go back in time to create a timeline where they couldn't dodge of course
“So you’re telling me Back to the Future was a bunch of bullshit?”
Ant Man Sucks.
He is right, though. You can't erase yourself with time travel.
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 We may not know the rules of time travel, but we know that's not them
At the risk of a misunderstanding, in this case it was "Black to the future"
that sounds familiar
@@KoishiVibin ant man in avengers endgame
“That will cause another branching reality unfortunately”
isn’t that true for everything we do ?
Yes, if you believe in that theory of the universes, if not, you got an alternate version where every universe is apart from itself, with it's own physics and chemical reactions, allowing stuff like life to potentially evolve radically different
@@stevenandersen6989 Drunk me leaves those kinds of comments everywhere as well
Everything you do creates another reality where you didn't do it
@@BierBart12 Or even better it creates infinite reality's where you didn't do it.
“You moved your rook to an alternate reality, yep that’s normal, good, that’s normal”
- an actual Chess Grandmaster
She's a Woman Grandmaster, which is not the same as the title of GM
Bro 💀💀💀
@John Smith what's the difference
@@magicsasafras3414 Woman Grandmaster and Grandmaster are actually two different titles, its possible for one person to hold a Woman Grandmaster title, while a Woman can hold just a normal Grandmaster title. IIRC the WGM title is a bit lower.
@@TheNotFakeBot212why is there a gender separation of a game of pure skill and intellect lmao
I'm kind of sad RT didn't read the review of this game on Steam. They are hilarious.
"I can now checkmate you in the past, in the present, and in parallel universes all at once, and neither one of us will understand why"
"Mentally damaging yourself or your friends for the low price of $12. Brilliant concept, and definitely too brilliant for my comprehension"
"It's embarrassing enough being checkmated by an easy bot in regular chess, I don't need it to happen in 16 separate timelines to get how bad I am"
"I tried going back into time to refund it, but Steam won't let you refund games you haven't bought yet"
I especially like how it's tagged under "Psychological Horror".
Out of curiosity, how many people found those comments helpful?
@@marcusdaloia2974 I'm wheezing
My favorite one is:
"i don't know how to play chess" *Thumbs Up*
@@toobig7150 What is that pfp and name
The rules of this game is every "explaining time travel" scene in every time travel movie (minus Looper and The Spy Who Shagged Me) turned into a supercut and then itemized
No Primer as well, but only because there basically *wasn't* any explanation.
See this is what I love about this game, you could be playing against a chess grandmaster and still be equally matched because ABSOLUTELY NO ONE knows what they're doing
I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration lol it’s not really that hard I personally find it wayyy easier than chess but I don’t really understand chess
@@zanderallan4373 I think not knowing chess is an advantage to this game because you don't have as much of a preconceived notion of how chess is supposed to work
You say that, but this game has an active competitive scene.
“Im four parallel universes ahead of you” fits well here
More like “im four hundred parallel universe ahead of you”
HIYAAAA HAA TAKE EM OUT MISION COMPLET
*five
Literally
@@lilylopnco yeah they are that's how this works and that's why theres more then one bored in a row when you move a piece it makes two one with out the piece and with it.
"roads? Where we're going we don't need roa-"
"checkmate."
"damn."
Time stamp please
@@muffinchini It's a Back To The Future reference, there is no timestamp.
Oh! I've actually played this game enough to almost understand it! The goal is, as in most Chess games, to put the board into a state that no matter what move your opponent makes, he cannot prevent his King being captured on the next turn, or Checkmate. What's great about Multiverse Chess is that pieces can travel into the past, so you can set up a piece such that it threatens a King on a board that has already had both players make their move, meaning you can Checkmate a King in the past.
Example: 4:18 - The opponent can't make any move in the Present to protect both his Now King and the King in the past. Checkmate.
If a player sends a piece from the present into the past, however, you can't actually change the present board because of paradoxes, so to resolve that, a new timeline is created, and both players must play the "newest" timelines until they "catch up" to the "oldest" timeline, or the Present. This can create scenarios where pieces are constantly being sent into the past and creating an ever-increasing number of timelines just to avoid a King being captured in the Present, since the game only ends when a King is unavoidably Checkmated, and you can avoid a King being checkmated by creating new timelines that must be resolved first, giving you a chance to Mate before you get Mated, get it?
But in addition to traveling backwards in time, pieces can also move across timelines. This means that RT is actually WRONG about the opponent being unable to win with the board at 0:30, as he can use a piece from that timeline to attack his King in a separate timeline. That's why there's view modes that show the boards standing up next to each other, so you can see the lines of attack possible.
From that point you just need to know how the pieces move across time and timeline, and most of them are pretty simple, if you take Time to being another Direction to move a piece in. For example, the Rook can move in ONE DIRECTION ONLY any number of spaces, be it Up, Down, Left, Right, or Parallel Time (so he can go as far into the past as he likes so long as there's no piece in his way, i.e. another piece that takes up the space he's on in the Present at any point between Now and Back Then). The Bishop can move in TẆ̵̥̺́͒́͑̏̌͝O DIRECTIONS, so long as both directions are the same number of spaces, so he can move diagonally once, e.g. Up one and Left one, or Down one and Timeline one. This creates scenarios where a Bishop that you don'̷̨͉͇͖̗͖̙̰̙̝̉t immediately comprehend is attacking your King because he's three spaces Left from where your King was three Turns ago.
Once you resolve in your brạ̷̛̤̙̗͎͔̦̪͗̔͆̓͒̏̑̂in that Time is just another Direction chess pieces can take, you can pretty easily plot their movement rules just like a normal Chess game.
Except for the Queen I don't fucking know how the fuck quadrangles bullshit and the Pawn can En Passant across time or something idfk my first game went for 30 different timelines and I'm not sure I ever stopped playing cuz I played the game in the past and there's a possibility my opponent in the past has moved to create a new timeline that puts him at an advantage and I'm just waiting for that timeline to catch up to now and then suddenly I never stopped playing and I can't stop because even though I stopped in the past there's a timeline where I didn't so Ì̶̛͇̤̥̠͗̐'̶̨̗͇̖̹͙̱̻͙͍̮͖͉̞͐̍ͅm̴̪̫̯̣̱̽͋͒͐͆͘͠ ̷̡̛͙̬͚̬͖̱̍͗͛̊̔̑͛͊̚̕̕͘ä̸͚̥̿͗̂̽̂̈̀͐̄͂̚ͅl̴̺̬̘̗̮̮̬̯̐̊̌̍͂̈́͘ẉ̴̪͉͉͗͊̓͛̀̽̈́̄̔̚ͅá̵̧̡̛͔͔̟͔͌̽̎̓̏̊̓̉̉̇̀͜y̶̧̛̪̝͉̺͉̻̟̼̥͕̯̲̦͊͊͊̂̈́̊̏̑̾̔̆͝s̴̨̨̢̡̧̖̭̜͍͎̲̮̰̔̈͋̒̀̀̕͝ ̵̢̲̭̬̟̥̝̜̟̫͓̽̆͐̓̒͌p̶̣̖͎̝͉̗̊͗͌̎͒͐̈́̔̚ļ̶̨̡͎̖̲͈̤͈̗͚͕̘͙͍̀a̴͎͇͛̒̍̓̓̈́̈́̕͝y̵͕̦̬̙̙̯͕̏͛i̵̫͐̌̽̎̉̍̑̂ņ̴̨͉͈̱̟̞̬͇̠͇͉͂͋͑͌̆̐͊͘͜͝g̸͙̤̖̦͂̀̄̋̑̀̽̆̀̚̕̕ ̸͚̤̰̀͗̈́̈́͌̋͒̑͝à̶̢̠͎̅̋̔̅̔͗ļ̴̛̗͚̲̠̼̙̹̙̜̒̓͋͂̀̑̊w̶̫̞̬͎̬̺̽̇a̵̡̢̫̋̓́͆͌̿̿͆͌̇͗ỳ̵̜̰̻̹͕̯̥̒͒̇̓̈͗̚̚s̵̨̀̃̿̃̀́̒̓͋͌͝ ̵̗̰̜͈̹͚͍̯͓͎͈̮̼͉̒̀̔͊ͅp̶̢͔̟͍͇͑̑̊͗̐̄̔̐͆̾̒̋͆͝͠ḻ̵̨̥̺̹̖̙͈̪͖͊̑̌̑̑̏̉͜͝͝͝ͅḁ̴̡̡̧̤̤̳̘̫͌͗̇̃ỵ̶̛̦̩̥̟̩̻̓̅̃͌͐͗͛̈́i̸͉̠͔̞̳̠̬͈̝̓̈̃͑̃̄̅̐̈́̉̓͆͠͠͝ͅn̷̘̮͛̏͐̾̃͆̓g̸̨̤̲̮̼̠̯͓͚̈ ̴̯̞̙̹͔͓̦̯͚͎͇̫͐̍̍́̐̉͜͝͠͝ṗ̸̢̖͈͓͇͇͇͍̙̲̮a̶͔̖͉̪̟̖̪̮̥͋̄͗̈́̎̈́͊͜͠w̸̱̫͈̬͛̅̽̏͌́n̷͚̱͍̲͂̎͂̋͌̂̇̽̓͊̍̿͊͑ ̵̞̝͎̟̠̲̲̒͂̍͛̒͗̊̕͝ͅt̷͖̙͚͉̂̂̓̂̒̀̿̒̇̿̋̚̚ö̴̢̝̭̳́̐̆̀̐̈́̋͑̀̋̏̌͝ ̴̜͐͗̌͌̂̇̑̔̌͊̔͝g̴̨̛͎̔͑͑̑͆͌͊͐̋̐͂̕7̴̢̨͙͈̹̬̮͚͓͎͈̖̑̚ ̷̮̼̉͒̓̍k̴͎̲̔̏̿̒͂͗͊͐̄́́̓̕͝͠į̴̣͚͈̳̳͈̪̝̝̘̝̥̅̈́͋̑̓̒̉̅̊̃͆̆͑̄͜͠n̸̢̺̰̻̯͔͎̻̜̠̾g̸̝͍̙͍̠̀̍͊͆͗̏̒̓̾̓ ̶̧̺͖̠̜̃ͅt̸͖̝̯̺́͊̍̍̓̑̾͠ǫ̴̹̘͈̹͙̗̜̫͍̆̏̐̆̋͑͌͋̈́̇̒͝ ̷̧̯̦̪̥̥̻͙̪̹̲͇͇̿̈̈́̍ḧ̷̺͖́̅̍9̶̛̪̭̼̠̯͈͗̓̓̀̇̃̕͠ ̷̢̲͈̲̼͉̈͋̾̀͗̄f̸̡̢̤͉̻͖̟̦͖͓́̓͌̃́̇̂͐͛̌͜͝͠o̶̢͇̠͚̅̉͂̎̓̎̋͑͛͋́͘͝u̸̟̳̞̳͖̿̆ͅr̷̤̯̫̫͗ͅ ̸̨̛͕̤͓̮̳̤͑̓̀̿̆́͝ţ̴̢̧̲̰͍͈̖̹͖͇̣̭̫̲͂͐͊͐͗̕ư̸̡̜̲̞̯̌̉̈͂̌͜r̸̻͉̀̌̄͌͛̾̒̈̃͑̒̂̑͝ņ̷̻̝̐̎͒́͌̈́́̾̚͘͘͝s̶̹̮͉̭̙̭̹̣͇̻̈̅ ̸͓̝̠̀̅̋̓̔̚̚̕a̸̩̭̖̗̩̜͒̽̀̿̈́̓̓̌͂͘͝g̵͎͚̪͎̭̤̳̝̓͑͐̈́̈́̆̏͒́̏͐̈ͅọ̴̈́͌̽̓̃͋́̌͒̂̆͝͠ ̸̧̰̥̤̭̩̯̋̍́͆͑̄̀͌̐͘͝͝q̵̛̲́͋u̷̧̢͚͍̳͉̟͔̫̲̭̣͕̍͒͛̔͜e̵̱̐͐̒̒̐͑̎̑͋̀̈́̀ẹ̴̫̫̪͋̍̾͂̓n̷̨̻̱̱̟̺̂͂̎̈͒̒̿͗̕ ̷̨̢̦͙̓̊f̸̧̺̎r̵̰̓̌͂̅̓̑̾͝ȏ̵̩͖͖̳̬̲̎m̶̘͇̫̪̺̹̜̂́̀̋̌̊̐̕ ̵̡̢̧̛̖͚̙̝̲̯̭̪͉̯̺̿̽́́̎́̑͜͝t̷̨̧̟̜͓̗̪̘̮͔͉̹̯̘̾̔̆́̀̈̿͑̑̍̈̽͘͘͝h̶̫̦̞̒̽̌̀̂͗̄̾́̎̋̉̕r̶͙̗̜̪̹̞͇̠̋͜͜ę̶̳͍̼̙̻̤͔̹͈͓͓͙̐̔̐͋̍̑̒e̶̢͍̯̺̭̺̘͈̣̅̓̏͐͑͛̑̀ ̵͚͙̙͕̼̞̖̪̹̳̪̞̱̘̭̃̈́͆̀̇̄͆̂͒̓t̶͖̠̼̟̎̓̄͗̈́̆̍̓̕i̶̢̛͙̝͊̚ḿ̵̢̗̮͉̭́̋ͅͅe̶̱͔͈͂̓ͅl̵̮̫͚̝̜̲̗̟̯̯̺̝͂͌̈i̸̖̤̗̺̫̋̈́͜͠͠ņ̷̞̰̬̤̼̰̟̺̈̇̍͐̈́͌̔̒̓̾̔͑͝e̸̡̪͎͇̼͎̬͗̅̀͆̂̾͊̎͘͜͜͠s̶̢͚̬̟̺̮̜̟̙̥̻͒͜ ̶̺̪̯̑͒͝ơ̷̧͖̟͓͙̺̥̝̣̞̗̔̈́̆͆̎̃̆̽͝ͅv̸̲̪̬͙̱̬̞̰̩͕̹͋͐̊ͅe̴̢̢̻̖͈͓̪̫͎͍̙͓̗͙̹̎͂̇̐̂͒̈́̌̆̓̋̉̕͠r̶̛͓̳̥͚͚͍͂͑̋͐̓̾̉̓̀͜ ̴̢͔̲̞̠̟̂̍̀̕͝ͅt̴̯̮͇̪̝́̊̚͠o̸͎̞̲̹̝̬͍͙͚̯̕ ̶̰̣̣̝̲̰̖̆̆a̶̠̯͖͈͕̠̞̞͍͕͖̓̆͗̑̌̃͑͘͝͝l̴̨̹͚̳͇̭̦͓͓̝̏p̴̢̧̪̫̙̭̀h̵̨̨̛͉͖̭̞̼̣̥̘̲̳̫̖̫̀̄̀͒̀̽ā̸̩̦̮͍̠̎̍̉͌͑̀͑͊͜ ̷̨̡̗̜̠̳͇̻̞̮̦̙̺͑t̵̨͔̰̮̗̥̙̻̒͒͒̈̐̂͒̈́͐͝͝i̸̖͍̞̱̣͓̦̫͊̐̓m̸̘̥̻͕͓̖͍̙̞̄̈̂̑̓̌͑͌͘̕ȩ̸̮̬̘̇̆́́͋͐͛ļ̸̛̛̻͙̭͗̋͌̅͑̄̎̕̕͜i̷̢̼̺̞̜̜̱̹͉͇͈̼̙̿̅͂̋̋͌̆ṋ̴͇̞̖̏ë̸̛̹̲͎̗̅͊͑̈͝ ̵̯̱̏̓͛́͆̐̎̍͗̓̚͝d̶͈͍̟̠̗͕͙̰̳̫̀̅̿́̿̄͛6̸̡̧̛̤͎͙̤̝̳͎̲̞͛́̑͆̉̆͌̑̄
RT please pin this ultimate comment
Oh. I sort of get it now.
That makes sense!
Ah ok, I understand, also you doing alright bud?
This is one of those rare games that no amount of explanation can actually bring together, the only way it becomes coherent is playing it awhile
Seeing that even Anna was baffled by this makes me feel slightly less dumb for having no idea what was going on here
To be fair, I think a grandmaster would have more difficulty understanding 4D chess since they've already memorized a specific way of playing.
The rules do a decent job of explaining the changes the extra dimensions add to the game. I’m sure if she went through them herself, she might be able to understand it better. RT did a poor job of explaining it too.
@@Tustin2121 I mean... accurately explaining something you barely understand yourself is pretty difficult.
RT: *Stacking queens from other realities on one board*
Other realities: "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
What reference is that quote from?
@@feintfaint7213 the elder scrolls iii morrowind
Sadly, there is no dwemer in this game to give a second chance
*Yes*
tfw you achieve CHIM.
On the bright side, your chat can't do any backseat gaming if they don't understand what's going on!
Ha, i just need to learn it and then come back in time and nag you, heck , mow i can start teching myself so i can learn faster and this new timeline me can tag with me for stereo backseatting
5D chess
Pluses
Can’t be backseated
Cons
Confusing
You say that like chat won't figure it out.
Or back seat anyway.
Bold of you to assume that will stop them.
You cannot stop us! 😈 😈
They sound like two scientists that are trying to understand time travel while still using it making the universe tear apart.
So Steins;Gate.
So we killed the queen
Yes but how?
I don’t know!
@@ShallBePurified i was just about to comment that...
"I'm going to take my king, and I'm going to move him back in time"
Russia Today, 2021
If you time travelled back to a different time what would people think of this post?
No, *Retweet*
7:32 “I think he’s going to forever delay it so we never get to this board”
Golden Experience Chessquiem
“You will never reach the truth”
I don't wanna add *another* bizarre reference, but the part at 6:50 where RT assembles 4 queens on the same board reminds me of D4C
Imagine how many chess boards you'll need for this in real life.
I mean if you use real time-travel you'd only really need one
@@mageofdoom7111 but it would depend time travel is a closed loop (like Harry potter) or is branching (like back to the future)
@@afropenguin It's branching. That's the whole point of it being *multiverse* time travel.
“Oh ok so it has similarities to *quantum chess* “
i’m sorry what
Every chess grandmaster is obviously familiar with *quantum chess*
i was about to explain atomic chess, but then i realized it was a different game mode.
@@Wilker_uwu I'm sorry?
@@Wilker_uwu Noted, I might check it out, thanks.
@@Wilker_uwu ????
Imagine a physical version of this where you just keep on printing out pieces and boards until someone wins or you run out of paper
I think that could work in VR actually
This should be RT's favorite game:
Even with all the slaughter, there is a low body count because it is the same people, and it is a war, so he can't be blamed!
Yes
@StubbyPine "He didn't die, I sent him back in time to a different timeline so he could no longer be harmed in this dimension"
this comment has 666 likes and I'm not powerful enough to change that.
nice pfp, i enjoy
Apex Predators know all about bodycount, don't they?
You can tell it's bad when a chess grandmaster is completely lost and has no idea what's going on...
To be fair, chess grandmasters don't typically need to be experts on time travel. It's like expecting an average Joe to fully understand the timeline of Dr. Who without any explanation.
I think she could get it if she played the game herself for a couple hours instead of trying to watch Dan’s flailing.
@@amokriinprolgiid3409 I think it's safe to say even fans of Dr. Who have no idea what's going on with the timeline now that the newest showrunner has mangled it so bizarrely. Also, my original comment was a joke. Learn to take a joke.
@@Tustin2121 Probably, but his only halfway competent flailing is why we're all here, tbh. ;)
I love this game. Bought it for shits and giggles and now I've played it for over 50 hours. It's so much fun when your inter dimensional time travel plans work out, and even more fun when they backfire and create a spectacular mess with new timelines branching off everywhere.
I do recommend the game mode that replaces the queen with a princess because the princess is like a terminator, whilst the queen is a damn time lord. It makes games more strategic, and check-mates far less cheesy.
yeah queen op lmao
as someone who can't even play chess this absolutely TERRIFIES me
this makes me fear the checkered pattern
Yup
don’t worry that means Muscle MemoryTM of normal chess can’t fuck you up
As someone who can even play chess this absolutely TERRIFIES me
I played chess for 3 years in elementary/primary school and I still have a pretty good understanding of it, but Idk wtf is going.
pov: you spent the last 9 minutes staring at your screen mindlessly trying to figure out what the hell was going on
My brain no good no more.
@@flareraptor1750 it never was
@@ophilia I don’t even have a brain
Its actually quite simple
@@andreicecold4379 Proceed to move me to a reality.
5:36 "A checkmate happened here"
"It hasn't happened yet"
This shit is why they made time travel illegal in Star Trek
This is how they would actually play chess if it were legal
I was like "Oh great, Anna is here to help!" And then even she didn't know what the fuck is going on.
"I have been checkmated four times in three timelines and I have no idea how or why" feels like the standard experience with this game.
This is the literal definition of "I'm four parallel universes ahead of you".
This statement has never been so literal
When has that ever been a phrase?
@@TS111WASD the meme, you know
@@juno_98yes
RT summoning all his queens from different realities was like in endgame when the avengers assemble. Truly an epic battle.
and then Thanos was like "Uno reverse."
"Is that everyone?"
"What, you wanted *More?"*
RT: "Maybe we'll do better against a human, because the human might not understand what's going on too."
Human Opponent: Wins by three simultaneous checkmates within 10 minutes.
When we said 4d chess, we didn't mean literally....
@FilthySewerRat Time is considered as a fourth dimension according to sciencists, so...
4D chess checks out.
Edit : ooooh, "5D chess with multiversal time travel" is actually the name of the game! Nevermind, then.
He's practically not using the spacial height dimension though, as the boards are two dimensional. That would make this only three dimensional chess
@@nahtanahtan Yeah, the alternative timelines are 5th dimensional layers, albeit normal chess isn't 3d, but 2d, so it's still 4d chess
@@nahtanahtan according to *some* scientists. Its not cut and dry and there are competing hypothesis regarding the nature of time.
@@Robin-cv5fv Four dimensional, since you're not limited to a single timeline, and basically have two dimensional time to work with.
“Are you telling me you made a time machine out of a chess board?”
The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a game, why not do it with some royalty?
@@raccoonja-ronja "When this baby reaches the endgame, you're gona see some serious shit!"
I wonder if it’s more functional than a microwave, banana, and cell phone...
Context: steins gate
Astrophysicists: What?
Kasparov: What?
Deep Blue itself: print("What?")
Dave Strider: easy.
Oh god my brain hurts.
This Zelda timeline clusterfuck has made me surrender
This is the kind of chess BDG plays
Please, just give me the basketball timeline
5D chess Unraveled when
To be fair, the Zelda timeline was never meant to be
more like kirby lore
So this is what Christopher Nolan sounded like when he pitched Tenet
All the premises pitched, just for cool backwards time shots.
Bold of you to asume he had to pitch his movie and didn't just get the funds as soon as he rolled into the producers office.
@@eternalmec3777 he paid them money to pitch his movie backwards to the directors, he then inverted walked to his home and took lsd in reverse
The Queen's Tenet
This whole vide feels like a mathematical equation for untangling ear buds
Have you ever seen the mathematical proof for why 1+1=2? Its fucking horrifying.
@@wandering4104 man this sent me down a rabbit hole, we can just state in an axiom that 1+1=2 for us lay people and not care about the paradoxes it forms
Dan pulling all the queens into one timeline has the same energy of the Doctor calling his other incarnations to help save Gallifrey in the 50th Anniversary special.
Me: I’m good at chess
Friend: then play over 10 realities
This game in a nutshell, ahem "Ya see, multiverse theory's a bitch."
The king: *not even close to a piece*
A random piece: I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you
as someone who doesn’t even understand normal chess, my mind hurts
I understand theoretical physics to the point where I can make sense out of the split-timeline multiverse theory they've built this on, but I still don't understand chess...
I can’t even play normal chess either lol
I understand chess and I’d rathe be stabbed with a knife than watch more of wtf is happening
@@lucykitsune4619 Same here, and that lesson was from watching Avengers: Endgame, ironically!
This directors cut of Avengers endgame looks insane and confusing
the AI be like "in particular, you will never arrive at the truth"
wha-
This would be a canon Diavolo Death
Is this the power of the enemy stand?
wha-
AI can't even solve normal chess, which has roughly 10^120 possible moves, which wouldn't even be a noticeable fraction of the number of possible moves in 5D chess
You know the game is hard when even Hikaru looks like a noob playing it.
Context to those who don't know, Hikaru Nakamura is a chess grandmaster.
@@nottreblinka4119 neay
thing is the Hikaru would have easily been able to play it if he would take 5 goddamn seconds to read the rules
@@zacharymarino8926 bro calm down its just a game
@@zacharymarino8926 when has RT ever read the rules though lol
“I won by accident.” Sums up my life.
Oof, same
at least you're winning, stand proud
Good life
This game has
_"I stab you!" "No!!"_
_"Yeah I stab you!!" "No because I'm wearing anti stab armour!"_
_"Well my sword is magic and can go though anti stab armour"_
Vibes to it
"Yeah, but I can eat magic swords, which can go trough anti stab armour"
@@T.W.0 “well my magic sword is poisonous so you’ll die if you eat it!”
@@harrymansfield6189 Actually my special skill "Reverse Poison" heals me when I get poisoned!
@@T.W.0 well actually the description of my poison enchantment says that the effects of the poison “cannot be nullified or reduced”!
@@harrymansfield6189 But I got blessed by the Gods so that effects that work against my abiliies or skills, don't work on me!
"Damn, I lost"
"Yep, checkmate, gimme that $20 m-"
"But what if I did *this*"
"WAIT N-"
RT about opponent AI: "He rewound the game, so-"
Anna: *WHAT?!!!!*
Fun Fact: By this game's rules and standards, creating the future is moving the present to past.
So, "Back to the Future"'s a bunch of bullshit?
@@lostline4007 Yes and no.
Back to the future is being played across a board state in the past, and the future is also in the past.
Even more so since we're past those points in time.
@@techstuff9198 endgame joke, if that wasn't clear -_-
thanks for the explanation though. enjoy a liked comment
Playing chess in a time where chess wasn't even created
“He pushed the present back... and that’s In the future”
i love how anna, literally one of the best chess players in the world, is so confused she has to default to the state of "are you winning, son?"
She was lucky that rt is good at communicating his situation so they get to be confused on the same level
*Minecraft redstone youtubers:* It’s actually pretty easy
they're not the only ones who understand the concept.
there's also NASA engineers and quantum physicists.
@@kirbomatic1573 You both aren't wrong though.
@@kirbomatic1573 ...someone is behind the times on memes.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451 you're looking at a comment from 3 months ago, I'd be amazed if it wasn't behind the times byy today's standards
Ok Mumbo
"It has some similiraties to quantum chess"
*_There's quantum chess?_*
Yes. And it's a lot simpler to understand than this game. I'm saying this as someone who understands this game and is still terrified by it.
@@rendomstranger8698 Dude I'm still recovering from trying to understand how a piece can protect itself across timelines and stuff.
I feel like if I try to go for a round of this I'll have an aneurysm, props to you for actually understanding what's going on.
@@GabrielShitposting Honestly, it's not that difficult to understand the movement once you realize that the game simply is 4 dimensional chess. With the coordinates being x, y, t and d. Pieces can exchange their movement along the x or y dimension for movements along the t and d dimension. With the king and queen being able to choose along how many dimensions they move as they can do the same in normal chess (normal or diagonal).
The time travel and parallel universes are that makes this game difficult to understand. If it was just normal 4 dimensional chess, it would only be slightly more difficult to understand than regular chess.
@@rendomstranger8698 I can somewhat get the picture of the additional axis, but, indeed, it's the time travel and locking/unlocking timelines that kill me.
@@GabrielShitposting There is no locking or unlocking of timelines. The rules are simply that you have to make a move on every board in the present. The present is the furthest board on the left where it is your turn.
Other than that, you can only make 1 move on each board. If a move has already been made, you create a new timeline by travelling to that board. And you can only create 1 more active timeline than your opponent at any given point. Your opponent can freely ignore any timelines you create after that point until they create a new timeline.
Everyone asking for chess 2 needs to see what they've done
"man that's so unfair"
*flips board and causes a rip in the fabric of reality*
Imagine talking to a chess grandmaster and calling a knight a horse
They're horses because they're shaped like a horse. Checkmate horse deniers.
in other languages its generally called a horse not a knight
Is she a grandmaster now? In any case she literally calls it a "horsie" to her stream lol.
@@ZeroOhClock The little graphic on the video says that she is a grandmaster.
most of non-english language call that Horse and some of them call the little pieces knight
Queen: calling all other Queens from other realities, we need your help, if we all band together we can defeat the evil forces of ___
anna, chess grandmaster and olympic player: yeah i'm good at chess
rt: so the AI rewound the timeline--
anna: what on EARTH
ANNA: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Me: I actually understand this game pretty well
"He just moved the present backwards"
Me: OKAY THEN, I GUESS I DON'T!
Basically you play the oldest playable board until it's caught up. Fun fact, since rooks move in a straight line / back in time on the same spot of that board, there's a gambit called Jurassic Rook, where ya just yeet the boi waaaay back and basically restart the game with a room from another board. This exploits that feature of playing till ya caught up you see.
For the record I barely know what I'm talking about myself but that gambit made me break down in laughter.
@@jaxblonk5127 Coming this fall: Jurassic Rook
Ancient chess pieces found in a tomb are brought back to life with the help of Doctor Rock Thomas
Hey wait... I recognise that logo...
Also, same lol.
^ for future thread scrollers, the logo is from the webcomic Aurora, written and illustrated by Red of Overly Sarcastic Productions
@@jaxblonk5127 Tactic, not gambit.
I just wanna clarify one thing; you can't just keep traveling back in time trying to stall the game forever, because each player can only create 1 or 2 (I don't fully remember) more timelines than the other player. So as long as YOU don't create a new timeline, the opponent can only create 1 or 2 more timelines. After that, any newly created timelines by that opponent are not manditory to play on (in other words it doesn't push back the "present" timeline).
RT: You fool, I am three alternate realities ahead of y-and I've been checkmated 3 different times. Fuck.
A wise person once told me, 'If you don't have a headache, then you probably don't understand time travel.'
You just stole that quote from the comment I posted tomorrow.
If you exist as a being locked into an advancing time perception such as ours then you probably don't understand time travel. I don't think anyone actually does
The nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents Homestuck again.
It just keeps happening.
Chess but there’s 9 different scratches at the same time and it won’t stop keep happening
Homestuck will always be reinvented in some quirky way
oh my god... its all homestuck
@@justsomedude3511 *click* always has been.
"Maybe we'll do better against a human because the human might not understand what's going on too"
Its telling how mindfucking nuts this game is when a grandmaster is as confused as RT. XD
Hikaru didn't even understand what a checkmate was in this game
It just seems so different from normal chess that you have to learn it anew. Once you grasp it though it's... Well, still more complicated than normal chess, but definitely not rocket science either. xD
@@Buphido yeah
@@Buphido Yup, but even then I really enjoyed the first couple matches where I was confused, but once I understood it, it felt like it mostly had lost it's novelty.
Alt title:
*"Chess but you are in Steins; Gate."*
You are HOUOUIN KYOUMA
why's my watch stopped working
@@naufalap shit.
@@naufalap but I just wound you!
@@tearlach47 don't tell me you're broken...
*When the CPU rewinds the present to avoid check:* "We have to go back... To the future!"
Chess a brain twister
Time travel can be confusing
The devs: sure why not both
just imagine programming that game... 🤯
@@stellabckw2033 programming it wouldnt be as hard as playing it
@@joerym.9750 well maybe, but the pc has to make moves too
The assignment shouldn’t be hard to understand.
The assignment:
there"s something so riveting of not only being screwed, but in various timelines.
Riveting, screwed, time travel, multiverses...
Ratchet and Clank!?
Alt title: Everyone will feel incredibly dumb in the timespan of less than 10 minutes
This is honestly one of the most amazing ideas for a game I've ever seen. As if the number of possibilities in _regular_ chess wasn't already massive...
4D Chess = Programming
“I don’t know how that worked, it just does”
Every single day I say this at some point
*ahem*
5D chess (with multiverse time travel)
@@Dakota__69 it's actually works out to only 4, as chess lacks a third spatial dimension. The game seems a touch misnamed.
@@KaosFireMaker In the games description it states that they purposely named it that to differentiate it from the very different 3D chess and just treat the 3rd dimension as unused. This also kinda works out since intuitively you wouldn't give the slot of "3rd dimension" to anything other than a spatial one.
Breaking News, RT increases his kill count by psychologically destroying his viewers with this insane concept of a game
>increases
He can decrease it by travelling back in time
"Simple" "time travel"
Those words don't usually mix but alright...
Simple, CHESS, time travel
Never imagined someone would recreate the terminator franchise into chess
Funny you mention that, because on the official 5d chess discord server, people have already built strategies and openings, and one of them is called the "Terminator Gambit"
@@1estel1ch.42 what does that move do?
My life’s purpose has devolved to a single goal: understand this game
i am a head of you on this
@@DrepaChorusTCG yeah i figured it out. still haven’t checkmated anyone except on accident but i’m getting it
@@DrepaChorusTCG jokes on you I went back to before you decided to master this game, I now have a years worth of experience on you.
Best way I understand it is stacking boards on top of each other.
@@ParkingCars basically this, it's more like 3d/4d chess than actual 5d really because you only really have 4 different main directions you have to worry about 2d is normal chess, then you have the parallel universes (up and down) and time (left and right) which then makes it 4d
Looks like a Legend of Zelda lore timeline.
I love how RT has to contact a chess grandmaster to try and figure out what’s going on and even she is confused