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Source: https://xkcd.com/3177/
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There was some controversy about this a while back; Magneto Charleston tried this over the board, but Hank Newman strategically brought a vibrating bum-plug to constantly keep the boards slightly out of alignment!
There’s a fun chess game on steam this comic keeps reminding me of.
5D Chess, with multiverse time travel
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/
It basically allows for moves similar to this. It also creates coherent rules for jumping timelines, or time travel. It’s quite elegant how they come out, in a “my brain is melting out my ear” kind of way!
I’m sure that if a tournament organiser has seen this comic, they’d intentionally misalign neighbouring boards by like 1/20th of a square just to mess with participants who might’ve seen it as well.
It’s only legal if you can build up enough speed to move to the parallel board in a single frame.
fuck we all saw the same video today didn’t we
Does it involve half an A-press?
I meant the insane Celeste skip in a single frame, which came out very very recently
I see, that was a good video. But the video everyone else is thinking of is the legendary SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated)
Relevant quote: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A?t=630 “We need to talk about parallel universes”
Super Mario 64 speed run explanations?
I meant the insane Celeste skip in a single frame, which came out very very recently
I once played a team chess variant where each player could place pieces captured by their partner on their half of the board instead of moving. Made for some of the wackiest play lines since a piece materializing on the board could throw off your whole plan, but super fun from a strategy perspective, since board state could change dramatically between turns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
There’s also shogi, if you wanna drop captures back in on one board, but a lot of piece mobility is reduced to accommodate this.
It was absolutely Bughouse (with some house rules tacked on)! It’s been years since I’ve played, but I’d never thought to see if the variation had a formal name. Thank you!
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Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles
I would have thought only a knight could do that, and only if the boards had a one-square gap between them. Other pieces have to travel through the intervening space, they don’t teleport. But Randal probably knows more about chess than me so I’ll accept this.
Knights jump over pieces not teleport. Unless you are playing Star Trek Tridimensional Chess, then they teleport.
This is the premise of 5d chess with multiverse time travel
PSA: the above comment is not a joke.
It’s half-joking, since the presented move is not a thing in 5D Chess, since the boards aren’t placed on one plane, but instead exist on new axes (one temporal and one parallel-dimension).
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