I've got good news for you NL: The fact that I have no idea what's going on is making it very hard to backseat game.

@Northernlion

3 жыл бұрын

that's where you're wrong buddy

@TKanishk

3 жыл бұрын

Backseating comes from the heart not the brain

@mongmanmarkyt2897

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northernlion NL what your mistake in the mate-in-one is the TITLE you're supposed to use the rooks you rube

@DeathMetalGuineaPig

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northernlion I tried to backseat but the comment made a timeline jump and landed on a Dan video.

@mongmanmarkyt2897

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeathMetalGuineaPig pogicity right there

Imagine making a game this complex and not having a tutorial. Absolute power move.

@QwertYuiop-ic1zf

3 жыл бұрын

Doubly so given that the UI explains nothing

@Loeffellux

3 жыл бұрын

One could say it's a.....5D Chess move?

@LarssonTheBear

3 жыл бұрын

It's pretty self-explanatory, really

@wkingston1248

3 жыл бұрын

Chess elitism these days smh.

@corvidscorvids9360

3 жыл бұрын

There's a practice mode that he just ignores. The tutorial is probably there.

Plays a puzzle called Rook Tactics, spends all his time moving the King.

@corinnelangan6634

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr, what a dummy

@zackwalker1789

3 жыл бұрын

I thought for some reason he wasn't able to move the rook, cause I thought if he was able to then surely he would have

@guidojacobs2002

3 жыл бұрын

@@zackwalker1789 I think he didn't get that the rook only goes in one direction, and that spot in the past all had the rook taking that place, so no going back that way.

@goldi947

3 жыл бұрын

You say that, but there are definitely puzzles in here where you have to move the king even though the apparent focus is on another piece

@gorgit

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldi947 but not when its mate in one lol

"Are ya winning son?" "I DON'T KNOW!?!?"

@robinvik1

3 жыл бұрын

I just bought the game. I won by accidentally checkmating a king six moves ago.

@1rez378

3 жыл бұрын

"Are ya winning son?" Alternate dimension you teleports behind dad "Dad? You are still alive in this timeline?"

@darkener3210

3 жыл бұрын

i once won by accidentally checking 6 kings all in different times and timelines 13 different ways with 2 queens. idk either.

@cman5053

3 жыл бұрын

I just shit my self man 😂😂😂

@NOTZeroBlank

3 жыл бұрын

Dark Matter WHHHAAAAA-

Listen carefully David, only an amateur would bother themselves with 3rd and 4th dimensional chess

@roietbd2992

3 жыл бұрын

ye even we play 2d chess in both our 2d displays and our 3d world

@Luredreier

3 жыл бұрын

Well, there's some 5D tournaments by now. It's in its infancy, of course. But it's quite interesting. Even if the game is super confusing and has certain issues. For one, the queen is a bit OP right now.

@helium-379

3 жыл бұрын

@@Luredreier Terminator Gambit and Jurassic Rook are a couple new moves I heard of.

@masteraccident4221

3 жыл бұрын

0d chess dont play just argue on who lost and who won until one submits

“Rook Tactics, Mate in 1. You know this is gonna start with moving your king”

@jordanmacavoy4089

3 жыл бұрын

This is an incomplete quote. "You know this is gonna start with moving your king into the parallel dimension."

@brlbrlbrlbrl

3 жыл бұрын

Quintessential NL, right there.

@shannons1443

3 жыл бұрын

Yea I could not watch this segment. It made me mad.

@generichomosapien4666

3 жыл бұрын

Shannon S same

@Mystic998

3 жыл бұрын

Moves a piece in a mate in 1 puzzle. It's not mate. "WHY CAN'T I MOVE AGAIN? THIS IS BULLSHIT!"

First few minutes of the game: Rook Tactics I Him: Ok so we use the king Me: *visible confusion*

@pichuyang3865

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, "meme" move that. Obviously the King back to the past is not gonna help, but hey, it is cool :P

@corinnelangan6634

3 жыл бұрын

He could have tried every move and brute forced the puzzle. But noooo, he tries the same damn moves with the same damn piece, accomplishing nothing.

@pichuyang3865

3 жыл бұрын

@@corinnelangan6634 Bcs it is implying that this game is a "confusing" game, lmao.

@Dharengo

3 жыл бұрын

I mean it's obvious. Just move the rook up to put the past king in checkmate. It's frustrating.

@wiilli4471

Жыл бұрын

@@pichuyang3865 It wasn't confusing though. No idea how he didn't get it after he read the solution explaining that you move the rook where the past king was. This guy is either putting on an act or genuinely got dumber with time

So this is what goes through an anime characters head when they say "I've already defeated you"

@AthosJosue

3 жыл бұрын

"Omae wa mou shindeiru"

@Jonjon13Jonjon13

3 жыл бұрын

@@AthosJosue * confused NANI noises*

@naegi3392

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jonjon13Jonjon13 but in 5d chess even after your death your spirit is still haunting the earth to search for why did you die

@FifinatorKlon

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing goes through a fictional characters head though.

@stm7810

3 жыл бұрын

@@FifinatorKlon r/woosh

"Why would you capture the pawn when you are in check when you could instead travel to an alternate dimension" I really want to see this game on today's NLSS

@finnaustin4002

3 жыл бұрын

Only if he learns how to play first

@autonomousanonymous6310

3 жыл бұрын

"And look at that, you know what we call this? Cyber castling."

@Releasing_the_Waves

3 жыл бұрын

The deadpan delivery of this line KILLED me.

"You have replied with an absolutely asinine move that should make you question everything about where you're at in life" I want NL to play more chess purely for that snark

@enclavevideo

3 жыл бұрын

I want NL to get into twitch chess hype scene

@a_lilypup

3 жыл бұрын

snarf*

@austinlove8821

2 жыл бұрын

3:52 Hades l.p. Transistofld

@austinlove8821

2 жыл бұрын

3:555 we watched every scoobydhmovgtlivekd. Puppetskinecvtasmrkdl pretty mushcitld Muschroom killing time psycho Alan

I think the rook can only travel in a straight line, even through time. So in the puzzle you could not send your rook back in time since a piece (past rook) was already in that position. The bishop was able to take your piece by seemingly moving forward a square, by going diagonally in time. This is why I think the parallel view is important, so you can actually see the overlap. At least this is what I puzzled out in the vid, never looked up the rules for 5D chess

@Reagord

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was noticing as well. That's why when he was trying to move the knight into the past it was moving in a straight line, because it's moving 2 up/1 PAST, instead of a normal 2 up/1 right or something

@umbaupause

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god! I get it now!!!

@mongmanmarkyt2897

3 жыл бұрын

this is what i would call new tech

@DerIntergalaktische

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh. Now it makes much more sense!

@MrBlbll

3 жыл бұрын

+1

I used to think KZreadrs were dumb because they miss really obvious stuff but when you're trying to narrate things theres a part of your brain that does reading comprehension that deactivates

@isaacpowrie465

3 жыл бұрын

So so true.

@PhantomAyz

3 жыл бұрын

That depends on the muscle memory

@userious9534

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhantomAyz also true

@Gitaikou

3 жыл бұрын

Brainlet cope

When do we get a Golden Goblet of this? Whoever can beat the first puzzle in the time limit gets gold.

@get_your_mood_right_

3 жыл бұрын

It would require Dan and malf to take a good deal of time to learn the game. And NL already has a huge advantage by being good at chess whereas malf and Dan aren't. This is definitely a solo NL kind of game

@Szanth

3 жыл бұрын

You heard the end part of the video, you can brute-force the puzzles by not actually caring about the mechanics, and if all you're trying to go for is time then that's the best method.

@Itachidude9

3 жыл бұрын

@@get_your_mood_right_ What part of this video would lead you to believe that Ryan's being good at regular chess helps him in any way with this...... whatever this is?

@MrGameadd1ct

3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting chess with 5 dimensions of play. It just looks like they are using the same board.

@CatCubed

3 жыл бұрын

@@get_your_mood_right_ I mean NL is good at chess but still wasn't able to complete a puzzle (even by brute-forcing it) where he just needs to move one out of two pieces to a correct spot

I think I understand this game so I'm going to do my best to explain it, it's pretty long though. TL:DR Each piece can move in its usual way like in 2D chess as well as being to move a similar way through time. Turns progress by moving the "present". Checkmate is when you can no longer move the present without escaping check. ***What the heck is going on?*** As I understand it, this game has added two time dimensions to chess to make "5D chess" You have your two regular spatial dimensions, i.e. regular chess moving across the ranks & files. It doesn't seem like you can move across the third spatial dimension (i.e. depth). Additionally you have one time dimension for going forward & backwards in time. This is represented by the different chessboards going left to right. Finally, you have another time dimension where you move along to parallel realities. This is represented by the chessboards going up and down. Note at 21:55 at the right you can very faintly see the -1L, L & +1L showing the movement. ***How do I win?*** Like in regular chess, you win by attacking your opponent's king while they have no valid moves to stop the attack. The twist here is that you can attack kings in the past and additionally in alternate realities. I'll explain how I understand each piece to move later. Since pieces can attack through time into the past and (as said throughout the video) you cannot change the past, it seems the best way to get checkmate is to attack a king in the past. This is because since it's in the past, the king cannot move and neither can any of the pieces in the past to try and block it. This means the only way to stop the check would be to take the piece currently attacking it. ***How do turns work?*** Turns alternate as usual. The catch is that every move ever is always shown, as soon as white makes the first move, a whole new board is created. Thus you can see the original state of the board and the result after white moved their piece. Note that every board has an outline, white outline means that it's white's turn to move and the same for black. A few times in the video a red border appears which I believe is the game showing you that your move is invalid because it puts the king into check (i.e. at 8:07) Which board you actually play on is determined by the big vertical line which says "present" on it. It moves towards the right at the end of every turn. To make it move, every "active" board on the present line must have a move on it. This is seen best seen around 17:50 where NL has to play a move on both boards on the present line to make it move forward and switch to black's turn. The present line, however, can shift to go to the past as seen at 13:39. NL sends the queen to the past which means the present line goes backwards too. This means play now continues from the new timeline where the queen was sent to the past as it's the furthest back "active" timeline. Not all timelines will be active though, as you can see at 14:43. The present line instead advances forward instead of going backwards to the past where he sent his queen. I imagine this is a built in system so that one player can't continuously send pieces into the past. I would guess that a timeline only becomes "active" in the past in the opposing player was the last person to send a piece into the past. Now knowing (maybe) how turns work, you can see how checkmate might work. If a player cannot advance the present line without stopping check in any reality as well as into the past, then they have been checkmated. Now you might ask how pieces move in this game and well... buckle up ***How does each piece move?*** These might not be entirely correct since I'm going based off what I can see in the video. The best way to think about it is realise you have 4 dimensions a piece can move in. Across ranks, across files, through time and into parallel realities. Or in the game's interface vertically and horizontally on the board like in 2D chess, horizontally through the timelines of all the boards & vertically through the timelines of all the boards. PAWNS - Pawns can only move forward one square (or two) in 2D chess. So in this game, that means they can move like in the usual 2D chess style or I think they can also move "forward" into a parallel reality. In the game interface, this means moving the pawn to a board directly above the current board of play as long as it does not move spatially. (EDIT: 20:34 shows this move). I'd imagine it captures in its usual way in 2D space or it can move diagonally forward through time to capture. So again imagining in parallel view, it can only capture a piece on the same relative square if the board is "forward" with respect to parellel realities and one step in the past or future. Or put yet another way, look at 21:55 and notice at the right there’s “-1L, L and +1L”. White pawns can move from +1L to L or L to -1L (if it’s not their first move I assume) as long as the same relative square is empty. ROOKS - Rooks I think are the easiest to understand, they can only move in a straight line in one dimension. This can be your regular 2D chess movement OR it can be through one of the time dimensions. In this case, it would not be moving through space to it has to stay on the same relative square (i.e. if the rook is on A1 and you want to move it through time or into a parallel reality, it must stay on square A1 on the board it ends up on). In the game's interface, this is represented by it moving to a board vertically or horizontally across from the board it's currently on as long as the space it would end up in would be empty. BISHOPS - Bishops move in two dimensions. This can be 2 space dimensions (like in regular 2D chess) or 1 space & 1 time dimesion or 2 time dimensions. Let's cover the 2 time dimensions first. As it's not moving in any spatial dimension, the square it ends up on must be the same relative square that it started on (if the bishop was on A1, it must move a certain amount of steps into a paralell dimension & the SAME amount of steps into either the future or the past where the square A1 is also empty. The alternative is in 1 spatial dimension & 1 time dimension. For example, if the bishop was on A1, it can move to B1 and one step into the past. These moves are seen at 16:31 when NL tries to move the bishop. It can move diagonally anywhere on the current board. Additionally, he could move it one step into a parallel dimension (the board to the left of the current board) and one space spatially. So it can move from C4 on the active board to one of B4, C3, C5 or D4 onto the board in the parallel dimension. Alternatively, he could move the piece 1 step in the spatial dimension & 1 step into the past. This is seen by the green squared on the board behind the current active board. He can move the bishop from C4 on the active board to one of B4, C3, C5 or D4. Finally, he can move the bishop 2 steps in the spatial dimension and 2 steps in the past. This is seen by the sole green space on the board two behind the active board. He can move it to A4 only as C6, E4 and C2 are currently blocked by other pieces. He cannot move 3 steps into the past and 3 steps in a spatial dimension because he is blocked 2 steps into the past in every direction & on A4 and 1 step out from that would be off the board. Whew. KNIGHTS - Knight move two steps in one dimension and the one step in a different dimension. This is seen at 16:47, the explanation is similar to the bishop one except that the moves are fixed at one step and 2 steps in a different dimension. If both moves are in the spatial dimensions, it's the same as 2D chess. If he moves in a combination of the time & space dimensions, he ends up on a different board. That’s why the knight moves differently. When he sends the knight back in time, he’s sent it one step in time backwards and 2 steps into a spatial dimension. Hence it moves from G1 to G3. QUEEN - Hoo boy, the queen can seemingly move in any number of the dimensions at the same time provided she also moves the same amount of steps. So for example, the queen could move two spaces along the ranks and along the files AS WELL AS moving two steps back in time and across two parallel realities. As well as any combination of only 3 or 2 or 1 of those dimensions. This is seen at 14:39 but I’m not going to explain it because that would take a while. KING - The same as the queen but he can only move one space at a time. ***So how do you solve the puzzle?*** Look at 5:08. The checkmate is to move the rook in the present time line from E1 to E5 (i.e. the bottom right corner to the top right corner). Why is that? This is because the rook is now in a straight line through the time dimension attacking the king on the first board at the top right corner. As you cannot change the past, the king cannot move out the way. The king in the present also cannot attack the rook as it is too far away so the rook cannot be taken. Finally, the king cannot block the rook’s attack as black only has a king. Thus, when it’s black’s turn, they have no move that will not leave them in check so they’re checkmated. ***Okay, so why did NL lose his match?*** -I’ll be honest, I have no idea why it’s checkmate in NL’s match at --21:48--. If anyone can shed some light on this that’d be great.- EDIT: Thank you to Tcj333 for explaining why!: "For NL's mess of a match, the bishop at +1F8 has sight on the king six spaces down, six moves in the past. He has no means to attack the bishop, and as he has made one timeline more than the opponent, any further timelines would be inactive and unable to help." So at 19:58 he moves his king to F2, 6 turns later the black bishop at F8 results in checkmate. So yeah that took a while, I'm sure others have explained it better in shorter forms but this is my understanding of it.

@Tcj333

3 жыл бұрын

For NL's mess of a match, the bishop at +1F8 has sight on the king six spaces down, six moves in the past. He has no means to attack the bishop, and as he has made one timeline more than the opponent, any further timelines would be inactive and unable to help.

@ZBoogie-tz7tm

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tcj333 but couldn't the rook in the bishop's timeline just move to the right?

@bobbybuns8861

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZBoogie-tz7tm Nope! Consider it this way, on the path to attack the king, the bishop moves one step back in time and one step down. The rook is not in the way of this path on any of the steps the bishop has to take, so blocking check is impossible here

@DeerDarling

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tcj333 Ah I see it now, good spot!

@TripleOmega

3 жыл бұрын

I think I get it now. If this game had a tutorial it might actually be playable xD

"rook tactics 1" We gotta move the king

The real 5D chess move is NL choosing a game no one knows how to backseat in.

@robinvik1

3 жыл бұрын

I have bought the game and traveled back from the future to backseat this video.

@Zarkyun

3 жыл бұрын

@@robinvik1 But are you from this timeline or are you in a parallel timeline?

@jasonbuckley4118

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zarkyun parallel obviously since hes from the future.

@carlenscharles2903

3 жыл бұрын

5D Lexi

@chrisbrindas1559

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbuckley4118 this has become the parallel because he moved from the future into it.

I’d say for a puzzle that says “Rook Tactics”, you try moving the Rook, I don’t know

This is the funniest shit ever. Cybercastling had me legit in stitches. This is the best NL tries ever and the fact that there is no tutorial just made it exceptionally better

@Pattonator14

3 жыл бұрын

cybercastling was actually golden

@aturchomicz821

3 жыл бұрын

YES

I think I've figured out why the pieces are moving "differently" when traveling back in time. They're not. They're following the same pattern. Rooks move in straight orthoganal lines. So that could be Up/Down, Left/Right, Forward/Back, or Upside/Downside (dimensionally). So a rook moving back in time will not appear to have moved, but just popped into existence at the same location, but in the past. Bishops move in straigth diagonal lines. That means it must combine two of the previous directions. So that could be Up-Left, or Down-Right. Or it could be Back-Down, or Upside-Left. Similarly Knights move in a hook pattern. That's 2 moves in one orthoganal direction, and one move in a different orthoganal direction (since they are all at right angles from each other). So it might move Down 2 spaces, and Back 1 space. Pretty sure the first puzzle somehow involves moving the Rook back in time to put the black King in check on turn 1

@Dharengo

3 жыл бұрын

They took the way they move in a physical plane, counted the amount of "axes" they could move along, then added two additional axes. A piece such as the rook can only move along one axis, so when it moves back in time it has no choice but to stay on the same tile. The first puzzle is easy. Move the rook to the top right tile. It will put the past king in checkmate.

@RoachDogg_JR

9 ай бұрын

What?

Rook tactic, one move. So I move the king twice? That's a kind of rook right? NO

I was zoning out alt-tabbed and then i heard "i'm in check but only one of my kings" and i lost my shit

I'm actually crying with laughter, this is the greatest content of all time. The egg is broken!

@thaumaturgeslit7759

3 жыл бұрын

I'm with you, I am laying on my floor giggling like a madman just watching the egg be fully scrambled.

@AdReNaLiNe9psn

3 жыл бұрын

Edwin Knapp I need more episodes of Ryan trying to figure this out. It’s actually the funniest video I’ve seen in a long time.

@bang_rik

3 жыл бұрын

It's HILARIOUS

@bennytyty

3 жыл бұрын

I LOST it at 8:02 with the sound and look on his face.

@CaMallmann

3 жыл бұрын

I'm literally laughing out loud. I love it

Y’all be play checkers while NL over here’s playing 5D chess

@Lucas-vu8jt

3 жыл бұрын

Not very well, mind you, but he’s playing it damnit!

@corinnelangan6634

3 жыл бұрын

I’d argue he’s not playing it

@TheDiazDarkness

3 жыл бұрын

But not making any actual effort to read the rules

ah yes, the puzzle called "rook tactics" involves moving your king to a different timeline. Obviously

@corinnelangan6634

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr, this guy is such a 3head

@knownas2017

3 жыл бұрын

@@corinnelangan6634 To be fair, you need a 5Head to even understand this game. I only have a 4Head Kappa

@corinnelangan6634

3 жыл бұрын

Lol fair. I came to understand this game through Aliensrock

@sykes1024

3 жыл бұрын

And he doesn't seem to understand what "mate in one" means.

@monsterupdatewhen

3 жыл бұрын

@@corinnelangan6634 you're right but at the same time you're using twitchspeak outside of twitch so i legally can't agree with you cuz you're cringe

if i have a child, this is the only game they're allowed to play

@Jairjax

3 жыл бұрын

You would create a monster

@rompevuevitos222

3 жыл бұрын

That kid will revive Einstein just to rub dem big brain on his face

for exactly one moment watching the video, I understood completely. The game made sense. After a full minute of blank-eyed confusion at that bishop move, I saw the goddamn fifth dimension I swear. And then just like that it was gone and I'll never get the understanding back.

@danielbonsu1139

3 жыл бұрын

this is like some full metal alchemist type shit

@GrunOne

3 жыл бұрын

Like that time I had a dream and I zoomed out to the scale of the whole universe and I GOT it, everything, and understood the scale of it all. Then I woke up and returned to being a caveman. I was not on drugs, why would you ask?

@jaredglasser9591

3 жыл бұрын

I've never related to a KZread comment as much as this one

@rinkakurei4916

3 жыл бұрын

Bishop simply moved one down (in timeline) and one down (on the board), making a move in two directions creates a diagonal move.

@tylerclarke5591

3 жыл бұрын

Rinkaku Rei wouldn’t that just be going down 2 though? You’d have to move it like one down a timeline and to the right on the new timeline

I was following until that bishop decided it didn't feel like following the rules of chess.

@bumbo007

3 жыл бұрын

@@lordofthe6string it what?!

@MicoDossun

3 жыл бұрын

You gotta keep in mind that to travel back in time it requires movement. In a 2D board the bishop moves vertically and horizontally the same amount of tiles but here it has to move either horizontally or vertically as many tiles as boards you move back in time. I think a knight clears it up more. A knight can move in one direction twice and the other once. Here the knight can move twice and go back one board or move once and go back two boards.

@TheThursty100

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't fully understand either, until I saw the knights move options. He went back in time two steps and one to the side. Essentially going back in time is also a move AND a direction. So the knight could've gone two down and one left, but since the direction is switch he down was essentially back in time to the same square. The backwards time movements are 3D chess. But since other pieces are also moving backwards, that's the fourth dimension, time and then the timeline splits introducing the fifth dimension, timelines

@curtisehoffman

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, fellas. I get it now. I _do_ think this game has a serious UI issue though.

@michaelwebster-clark2939

3 жыл бұрын

The movement tech is a lot easier if you've ever played 3D chess, where you have up/down levels that act like time does here (bishop can move in lines of slope 1, so one x/one y at a time, one x/one x at a time, or 1 y/one z at a time). No idea what causes you to be unable to move pieces in a branch vs being unable to move them in a branch though.

Just the title of this alone tells me it will be the most important NL video ever made

my caveman brain cannot comprehend what’s going on here

I'd watch a series of videos you did on this, totally blind just trying to beat this one puzzle.

@gordonplayer

3 жыл бұрын

it probably would get old and repetitive on episode 300.

That moment when your good at chess but try to make multiple moves in a mate-in-one

@elli.elli.n

2 жыл бұрын

😂

*AlphaZero:* _* Plays 5D Chess *_ *Life, Universe and Everything:* Why do I hear Boss Music?

@d3vitron779

3 жыл бұрын

42 dimensional chess

Gotta admit I don't have any idea what's going on here, but it's entertaining

Why would someone not provide a tutorial or a quick explanation with this game, it's actually boggling that the creator would just be "just get 5d chess 4head"

@revi5555

3 жыл бұрын

There was, he just ignored it

@TwistedAttitudes

3 жыл бұрын

@@revi5555 in NL's defense on this one, the way the "Quick Rules" card was going it didn't seem like it was going to show you how you're supposed to play the game even if he scrolled down. Telling someone to "Move a piece into the past" is not the same as saying telling someone "How to move a piece into the past"

@TheJacksonFaller

3 жыл бұрын

it's 5Head actually

@lolzforlunch

3 жыл бұрын

Whaddya mean that's the best part about this game

@MrStatistx

3 жыл бұрын

I assume it would have been made clear in 3D and 4D chess, but he skipped those :p

"We've created a parallel world where we can send our King back in time" sounds like the title of a light novel.

I think this might be the greatest viewing experience I've had in a long time

Ok so I'm here from the future to explain the first puzzle to you so that you will make the video that explains the first puzzle to me in my past and your future. Ignore parallel dimensions for a second and view the progression of time as a third dimension: the current board is one side of the cube, and the first move is the opposite side of the cube. The rook can move in straight lines in this cube: it can move straight back in time, straight up on the current board, or straight to the left on the current board. Your own rook is blocking your movement straight into the past, (you stay in the same spot on the board when you move straight into the past, so your past rook is blocking your present rook from moving that way) Moving your rook to the top right square attacks the king at the start of the game. Nothing black does can change where the king was at the start of that turn (the first turn) so the king is completely unprotected. Initially I was confused because the king moves on its first turn out of the way of the attack, but this doesn't actually block the rook from taking the king on the first turn, because the rook still has a straight line into the past that attacks the king.

@edwardwells2395

3 жыл бұрын

Think you’ve nailed it there mate. Seems the moves into the past are 3D versions of usual moves. The knight goes two in a direction and then one into the past, turning the L shape into an I shape. The bishop goes diagonally across into the next square but it translates to one vertical/horizontal space for every dimensional board it goes through. That’s the hardest one for me to get!

@Doppe1ganger

3 жыл бұрын

Jep, it's not just "2d but you can go back into the past". If you want to move a piece back into time and create a parallel universe, than it needs to follow it's legal pattern (but than on the z axis). So, rook can move up and down in the present, however if it wants to move in the past than it it stays on the same square (but than appear in the past, where the rook wasn't located yet). The king can only move one time into the past (since it can only move 1 square), a horse can only move 3 times into the past (since it's only legal move is an L)

I'm so glad he's playing this. To everyone complaining about a tutorial, you understand a bit better if you read more than a couple sentences of the rules. To brief anyone who wants to understand what's happening, pieces move with the same method they do in normal chess, but instead of just two dimensions (X, Y), you can choose from X, Y, time, or timeline. For instance, normally a knight moves two spaces in one dimension, and then one in another; here, instead of just X:Y, you could move two spaces forward and one timeline up, or two moves into the past and one space left. Similarly, a bishop moves in equal parts along two dimensions (normally one Y for every X), here it's the same principle, but with added dimensions to choose from. For example at 15:15, the black bishop moved one space down on the Y axis, and one board down on the timeline - equal movement against two dimensions. A rook can move as far as it wants in any one dimension. It can move like normal on X or Y, but it can also move linearly as many moves into the past, or as many timelines up or down as it wants, though it doesn't move along the X or Y so it'll be in the same spot at its destination. As the rules explains, you generally don't want to time travel unless necessary. The past cannot be changed, so time travel creates a split timeline. The significance of this is that if you position a piece so that it can target the king in the past, the past king can't defend itself. The only solution is to capture the attacking piece before the present progresses. Creating more timelines creates more pasts to attack. In the Rook mate-in-one puzzle, all NL had to do was move the rook to the last rank, since the king occupied that spot in the past. The rook has sight linearly into the past.

@rogerhou27

3 жыл бұрын

Its X Y and a variable Z, its actually not as complicated as it seems in the video. The Z can only move to spots that aren't blocked but also based on regular chess moves like in normal 5D chess. But unlike normal 5D chess you can move pieces to the past creating parallel dimensions. I really want to see NL lets play this for 1000 videos, the greatness is there, just hasn't been realized!

@nspreen

3 жыл бұрын

But in the puzzle he couldn’t move the took at all?

@terablast

3 жыл бұрын

​@@nspreen The solution was not to move the rook through the past! It was just to move it up four squares. Here's the completed puzzle, I think it helps visualize the fact that the rook checks the black king through the past: i.imgur.com/Ba6ml0A.png

@mawillix2018

3 жыл бұрын

What about the 5th dimension?

@terablast

3 жыл бұрын

@@mawillix2018 We skip the third dimension, just like in ordinary chess.

NL 2 minutes in, after making a small game on easiest difficulty "I'm a little overwhelmed." Me: Grabs popcorn.

the part that makes me the angriest is he literally read the solution to the first puzzle out loud and proceed to not know what to do, to solve said puzzle

I feel like when you send Knight Ulrich back in time to attack Helge, he would move a knight's move where time is a dimension. Such as back two moves, and then move 1 space cardinally.

@rtg5881

3 жыл бұрын

Time has two dimensions, just as space does.

@dwaynelanclos2588

3 жыл бұрын

Move the queen back in time far enough and her daughter can become her own mother.

I don't even know how to play regular chess and yet, I'm all the way pogged up for this lol

From the steam store page: "Learn as you go. An intuitive interface makes experiementation quick and easy." No further comment needed.

@Oxxyjoe

3 жыл бұрын

EZ

@MrFredstt

3 жыл бұрын

“Easy”

@tipoima

3 жыл бұрын

Frankly, interface IS very intuitive. NL just had some weird assumptions, like "Obviously in a one-move-mate Rook puzzle you GOTTA use the King" and instead of experimenting he tried playing normal chess.

@Dharengo

3 жыл бұрын

It is very intuitive, this guy is just smooth brained.

NL is actually prepping for the next Pogschamps / twitch rivals chess

I have never learned how to play regular chess. Would you say this is a good entry point into the game?

@OfLastingThunder

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because even people that understand chess are confused about it.

@Rimuru_Tempest_-

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect place to learn chess

@NotaPlagueDoctor300

3 жыл бұрын

@@OfLastingThunder r/woooosh

29:20 Option 1: Disappointed dad. Option 2: Good ol' toe stub. Option 3: Missing author medal in TM. Option 4: POG session of 5D Chess

he skipped 4d chess because it was way too easy for old Northernloin,the lucky

I'm sorry but I just can't watch this. ROOK TACTICS mate in one: tries literally anything except for moving the rook or mate-ing in one

@acex222

3 жыл бұрын

Right? He doesn't even try to understand

@macgyveriii2818

3 жыл бұрын

Not cut out for this game.

@yihsiangkao

3 жыл бұрын

The idiocy level is beyond the universe

This is it. This is your best video. It's all downhill from here.

In both the future and past I'm simultaneously pogged out of and into my gourd!

My head hurts. These entire 31 minutes and 42 secons are going right into Baby Pigman's series. I feel like he needs an MLG galaxy brain genius to explain it to him. And to us. Sooooooooo Hafu when?

@robinvik1

3 жыл бұрын

All the pieces move like normal chess pieces, but in different dimensions. So the rock can only move in straight line. When traveling back in time that means it can only go to the place it is currently standing on the previous boards because that's what a straight line is in that dimension. So to solve the check-mate-in-one-move puzzle, you just need to put the rock on the place that the black king were in the past. Since the past can not be changed there is nothing black can do to stop the rock from traveling back in time and capturing the black king in the past. See? It's very easy and intuitive...

@rtg5881

3 жыл бұрын

Its fairly straightforward. The pieces move the same way as you are used to. Rooks in a straight line through one dimension just like in normal chess, for example. Just that in normal chess there is onlly two possible dimensions instead of 4.

Each piece has a specific movve it can used to go back in time, rooks appear not to move when they travel back in time as they only move in a straight line, in this case back in time. Knights can move up 2 peices because it travels back one turn in time and then up 2. Bishops move diagonally back in time, back one in time one move down.queen is just a combination of bishop and rook.

I bought the game because of this video, it looks fun figuring out how it works! The way the rook puzzle is solved is to put the rook on a5 (top right btw), it puts the king in the past (on a5) in check. In normal chess a rook moves in a straight line across rows or collums, in this game the rook can also move in a straight line across time. Meaning it can move from a5 on board 3 to a5 on board 2 or board 1 (unless blocked).

@stephenlovell1693

3 жыл бұрын

I was so frustrated watching him try to solve the "Rook Tactics" puzzle by moving his king.

@Doppe1ganger

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenlovell1693 Classic Egg

@peteomarjebdollosa9170

3 жыл бұрын

"unless blocked." How do you block a rook across past timelines?

@Doppe1ganger

3 жыл бұрын

@@peteomarjebdollosa9170 If the rook moved to a place where an other piece used to be, then if it wants to go along the z axis it is blocked by the piece that used to be there (unless it's a piece of the opponent, then it can just capture it i pressume?) Imagine Terminator, everything reverts back except the Terminator that just seems to pop out of nowhere. However, the rules of chess still apply, a rook can only move in a straight line backwards and can't jump over pieces, it is unlimited in how far it can move back. A bishop can only move back diagonally, a king can move back in all directions however it can only move one square at a time, which holds true when moving back long the z axis. Etc,...

@peteomarjebdollosa9170

3 жыл бұрын

@@Doppe1ganger Oh so it can only move back in time on the same space it was in the present board as long as that space on the past board isn't blocked by any of your pieces. Gooooooootcha....

I was able to solve the puzzle. Rooks can only move straight, which includes straight backwards, and you can only move pieces in the present. So if you can put your rook on a square where the black king used to be in the past, then unless the black king in the present can capture your rook in the present, your rook will be able to capture the king by moving straight backwards in time. The fact that this game can even detect checkmate is very impressive.

The rook in the puzzle can't go to the past because rooks can only go straight and will only ever land on the same square they moved from on a different timed board, as opposed to knights queens or bishops that can move diagonally so it can go back in time and also away from itself. The puzzle rook had never not been on that square so it's sitting in it's own way at every point. Edit: but it CAN threaten to go back to the past. If it moves to the top corner where the king used to be. You checkmate the king's past. Kill Thanos as a baby. The rook can capture the king on its next move and because it's not that king's turn anymore it can't move away. The rook would have to be captured in the present which the current king is too far away to do.

Once you learn everything it makes so much sense, but before that it's laughably confusing.

I've seen enough tv series to know that too much time travelling chess and we'll end up making Germany win ww2

@GameAlicornLuna

3 жыл бұрын

Command and Conquer delves into this. WW2 was actually Germany leading the Allies to defeat a technologically superior Soviet Union. 30 years later, the Soviets invade the US after a psychic causes all of America's nukes to fail, followed by Albert Einstein making a weather control machine to destroy Moscow. Then more time travel happens.

"We call this cyber castling" lmaoooo

"Rook tactics 1" *Try to checkmate with the king a million times.

Normally I look upon tutorials with the greatest disdain, but this needs a real tutorial. A wall of text doesn't not count as a tutorial.

@rainexcrementintoyoursoul1038

3 жыл бұрын

So it counts? :D

@dsi24

3 жыл бұрын

The wall of text actually does a very good job, it turns out the piece moves across time are just like their normal moves but on different axes - a castle can move along any 1 dimension, a bishop diagonally along any 2, knight any 2 then 1 or any 1 then 2 etc. So the checkmate puzzle was to move the castle to a5 - the castle would check the past king (it moved from a5) along the time dimension, and since you can't modify the past (without making it the present by moving to it, and then you branch off into a new world line...) it would be checkmate.

@GabrielAKAFinn

3 жыл бұрын

It's a manual. Use your eyes

@Day13May

3 жыл бұрын

It's meant to be experimented with, that's part of the fun. After a day of testing it out the game actually makes sense I promise

@rtg5881

3 жыл бұрын

The puzzles do.

Here's the thing. Baba is you, my dude. Brain is melt.

@corinnelangan6634

3 жыл бұрын

Aliensrock?

Can we PLEASE get more of this, this is exactly the smooth brain content I come here for

Okay, I really have to say I'm super frustrated watching this. Especially the rook puzzle. It's called Rook Tactics, yet you insist on moving the King. It's labeled as Mate in One, yet you keep on trying to make a second move. Like, I will say I have played a bunch of this game now and understand all the mechanics well at this point, but this is really driving me up a wall. You even said the solution out loud from the post you read and still didn't do it... I don't blame you at all for not understanding the mechanics, but please read the words in front of you.

@CZProtton

3 жыл бұрын

To be completely fair, the UI is completely horrible. It does not allow you to move a rook into the past. It has arrows all around its wazoo about how it took NLs king after he moved it to a paralel dimension which did not make sense, at all. The game is playable, makes sense and so on, but the tutorial and UI is totaly worthless.

@rynjp

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine trying to shame someone trying to learn the game haha...i mean it’s not like NL is stupid. I think most people would struggle to understand the mechanics of this game, AND he is trying to create an interesting video for his audience. Spending too long trying to figure out one puzzle wouldnt a great video make.

@Tarofel

3 жыл бұрын

@@rynjp Not at all what I'm trying to do, but go off mate.

@Gustav_Kuriga

3 жыл бұрын

@@CZProtton Are you kidding? That's probably the most intuitive UI I've ever seen. You haven't seen a bad UI if you think this is one.

@devilishjester7718

3 жыл бұрын

@@CZProtton it does make sense, the rook couldn't go back in time because its position was already occupied, the king just traveled diagonally in time

If there's one important quote from this video it's "we've used inter-dimensional castling". Also man, this is like the game equivalent of the movie "Primer".

I wish NL stuck with this game a bit more, under the "Quick Rules" there's an actual full rules section that somewhat explains what is going on and makes it way more manageable to figure out. Just bought the game and I'm already in love with it.

@Destragond

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, disappointing that he didn't scroll through the rules at all, even though he kept asking for explanations.

@PTMxCh00bX

3 жыл бұрын

@@Destragond Classic egg play

@CZProtton

3 жыл бұрын

@@Destragond That is because the developer is an idiot, though. He should have opened with the full rules. NL skipped it all because even the quick rules and tips were completely incomprehensible.

17:09, the pieces are moving differently because you're looking at a 2D representation of 5D movement NL. Each board is 1 dimension and you're moving the pieces through 3D, 4D, or 5D space depending on how far back you want to go.

@Northernlion

3 жыл бұрын

what

@lukobb

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northernlion i think the bishop went one tile down one tile back in time, so the diagonal was across a different dimention to usual.

@jhanschoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northernlion He's memeing. The board is 2d, our 3rd spatial dimension isn't used. The 4th dimension is time, so for example, you can move a piece (e.g. a queen) back in time, or a pawn can capture diagonally back one step in time (similar to 3d chess); bishops moving diagonally back/forward in time appear to move horizontally, rooks moving horizontally forward in time appear not to move at all (they can't move backward in time if they hadn't moved in the last step, since their past selves are blocking themselves). Finally, instead of having access to just the timeline's history, you also have access to parallel timelines history, present and future as well, serving as the 5th dimension. You can move straight to other timelines' present (horizontally/vertically in the 5th dimension only), or to their past or future (diagonally in the 4th and 5th dimension). I think the game needs to clarify how the pieces are able to move in the 4th and 5th dimension.

I am probably not the first one, but I bought this game myself and have just figured out what the logic is. (It is quite amazing honestly) The game interprets the movement of the pieces in terms of dimensions with the rows of the chess board being the first and the columns being the second dimension. That means for example the movement of the rook is interpreted as "move any number of fields in one dimension" and the movement of the queen is interpretet as "move any number of fields in any dimensions providing the number of fields in every dimension is equal." (this basically just means diagonal movement). Now the time arrow (rows of boards) is the third dimension and the parallel boards (columns of boards) are the fourth dimension (im not quite sure what the fifth is honestly) and the above rules are just applied to the new dimensions as well. The equivalence of fields in the first and second dimensions are turns in the third and boards in the fourth. This means the rook can now either move any fields on the same board (e.g. A1->A6) but also to the same field it currently stands on on any parallel board or past turn (A1 this turn -> A1 earlier turn). The queen can move just like normal on the current board or it can move to the same position it currently has on any parallel board or past turn. When it moves to a past turn that is X turns away it can now also move X (actual) fields on the board of that turn in any direction, it can not move X-1 or X+1 fields however. Another way to think about this is to think about the position of a piece as coordinates (A1 meaning Column A, Row 1) with two axes and in 5D chess of coordinates with four axes (32A4 meaning Column A, Row 4 on the third turn on the second parallel board) and then apply the rules described above. Honestly its brilliant, simple once youve gotten it but still insanely hard to play because you just never think "that way". Youre not trained to think in four dimensions. Edit: The solution for the puzzle NL tried is to move the rook to the top.

The puzzle was mate in ONE ROOK tactics and he tries to finish it with TWO moves and his KING

Can't beat watching your favourite 2D egg get scrambled.

i recommend starting with the knight puzzles instead, it makes it easier to understand how pieces move back and across boards

This might be the most entertaining video I've seen in awhile - keep it up egg! pog

At the end he literally reads the solution to the puzzle, "I moved the rook backwards in time from the upper right corner of the board." And somehow he still doesn't get it.

"Rook Tactics" kind of implies that you should try to move... the rook? And not the king? Maybe?

@FL-ej2yz

3 жыл бұрын

Mate in one also implies you have one move.

@Northernlion

3 жыл бұрын

Okay DD, what's your move

@jvcmarc

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northernlion rook to E5 tho?

@AndiSincere_

3 жыл бұрын

Northernlion just spitballing here because it’s 5d chess and i am but a man, but i think you would move the rook 2 back in time to d1 thus blocking the kings movement to the d file?

@Northernlion

3 жыл бұрын

If you can figure out how to get the rook INTO the past I think this is the right play, but I couldn't seem to get it going

I need a follow up on this.

Please do more of this. This was the best thing I have ever watched

I would so love to see more of this.

NL: CEO of trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results

@LeoGamer77777

3 жыл бұрын

This is the definition of insanity therefore NL is the CEO of insanity

@SuperSymn

3 жыл бұрын

That same thing must work in at least one parallel dimension

@ThePhunnman5

3 жыл бұрын

SuperSymn actually a great point

why didnt he read more than 1 of the tips

@revi5555

3 жыл бұрын

“I’ll just read the first tip and then assume the rules for the rest of the game” -NL Honestly the most infuriating thing about NL tries

@Northernlion

3 жыл бұрын

just because I didn't read them out loud doesn't mean I didn't read them lmao

@feralfluid

3 жыл бұрын

Northernlion fair, but the viewer only understands it as much as your monologue suggests. I felt like I needed to buy the game just to read the tips so that I could sorta get it. I was in the dark, asking “wtf did the rest of the tips say”

This is comedy gold. I'm just as lost as you Ryan. I haven't laughed that much in a while. More cursed gameplay please!

I have had a fever dream that went exactly like this. I'm thrilled NL played this!

"Hey let's release our game called 5d Chess with Multiverse Time Travel" "Should we include a tutorial or some instructions about what the legal moves are and the obect of the game?" "Nah" EDIT: I now see that the actual instructions are buried in the "tips" section that NL skipped at the beginning. Bad UI and bad Egg combined for explosive results.

@robinvik1

3 жыл бұрын

Still no tutorial though.

@emikochan13

3 жыл бұрын

@@robinvik1 tbh as soon as you know that it's 3d chess with time travel it becomes pretty obvious how it works

@monsterupdatewhen

3 жыл бұрын

bad ui? so a manual in the literal rules section is bad ui? so we're acting like we can't read now.

I understood it... and come on, you can just make one move in the puzzle, not more.

I actually need more of this

I love this! I've spent half an hour laughing at your confusion and it is great!

Everyone is talking about how you can't backseat the game, but as someone who is technically rated above 600 on chess.com and understands the game I am backseating constantly. Once I learn how to notate moves I will promptly head over to alienrock's and lion's twitch to tell them what to do.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Multi-dimensional Chess. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Ryan's pogged outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Daniel Gheesling literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Northernlion truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Ryan's pogged catchphrase "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah," which itself is a cryptic reference to being pogged out of one's gourd. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Ryan Letourneau's genius wit unfolds itself on their monitors. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 And yes, by the way, i DO have an NLSS tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

Me when opening the fridge 5 times in a row hoping something to eat appears

Great video, I don't comment often but I watch all your content! And this was the funniest video I've watched on this platform for awhile!

The virgin viewer thinks NL is confused. The Chad viewer knows that the virgins cannot comprehend his 5D reasoning.

This is just the developer flexing his massive brain on everybody else edit: Oh, I get it. Expand the moves of the pieces into 3D, then layer the boards on top of each other as they go through time, and also layer the parallel boards on top of each other, so the pieces can go "backwards" in time and "between" branches. This game would probably be more comprehensible if the boards had width.

@gray007nl

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like this game would be more comprehensible if it also included like a 5D version of a simpler game like Tic-tac-toe or whatever.

@alexbaker4051

3 жыл бұрын

@@gray007nl It only works with pieces that have movements, he's right about it basically being boards "on top of each other" and expanding the pieces' normal movements up and down as well as on the normal plane.

@Romanticoutlaw

3 жыл бұрын

I’m scrambled just trying to read that

@gray007nl

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexbaker4051 Yes but playing like 4 or 5D Tic Tac Toe introduces you to the lateral thinking required for something like this

Need more of this

This has been truly incredible content

He's gonna take you back to the past. To play the subpar games that were rather inadequate if I do say so myself.

@danielfitterman7746

3 жыл бұрын

Upset electronic entertainment wizkid

10:50 That's not even in English

I watched this, now I've bought it, tried it myself, now watching again and I still have no idea what's going on most of the time

I found the in-game tutorial pretty helpful actually. You can't just read the first paragraph, call it good, and then be surprised when you have no idea how anything works.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." I jest, but it was funny watching you doing the same thing instead of trying all the other options.

@LilJbm1

3 жыл бұрын

You say you jest but you are exactly fucking right. It WAS insanity and frustrated the shit out of me. You deserve a like. Really think NL might be smoothbrain with this one.

Typical chess newbie, loses his queen and forfeits.

This is genuinely one of my favourite videos you've ever published, I have no idea what's going on it's great

I’ve never wanted a series from a game more than this one!!!