Two idiots try to play 5D chess

your intelligence scales exponentially in reverse with the amount of timelines you create.

[@wurststar9023]

5D chess in real life: "Check" "What, when" "Yesterday, 3:52 pm."

[@-loarado]

aw man

[@FenLupimo]

@@-loarado so we are back in the mine

[@dylanmooney6330]

Which timeline

[@the-oncomingstorm]

@@FenLupimo what are you talking about. We're clearly in spaceships.

[@cheeseycheezy]

@@the-oncomingstorm uncultured

[@KaizarNike]

You two are so big brained. The puzzles should help to see when trouble is coming, but with this many timelines only some manydimensionedbrain chessmaster from a comic dude could see that far ahead.

[@danielyuan9862]

I think the game isn't supposed to be played in so many timelines :P

[@KaizarNike]

High level play seems to mostly revolve around under 3 timelines, but watching time and space spaghetti out is its own reward.

[@syweb2]

@@KaizarNike Sometimes, you just need a powertrip, and nothing gives as big a trip as playing God, now does it?

[@dislikereporter2271]

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheep in a nutshell

[@dazedheart9006]

“You missed the 1238th timeline, idiot.”

[@walkingmarshmallow6895]

Bro imagine there being people who are 5d chess grandmaster

[@fernweh8709]

Turns out shitposting the whole match doesn't make you win

[@KlineStife]

but it is funnier

[@fernweh8709]

@@KlineStife oh hell yeah, I thought you were going to win tbh

[@tverdyznaqs]

That was great, congrats to the bloke who won and Fs in the chat for the other dude lol

[@XamiNaxamis]

The nature of humanity is that every few years, someone reinvents Homestuck.

[@prometheus8457]

"ez clap"

[@prometheus8457]

34:35 lol

[@primalknight]

brain hurty

[@themathhatter5290]

Total moves: 151. Furthest along one timeline: 21 moves. Total timelines: 25. Brain wrinkles: incalculable.

[@davidmorley7495]

The brain wrinkles went back in time to make more brain wrinkles

[@tommybomby4122]

@Nicholas Natale ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@tabnk2]

There were so many wrinkles that they were amplifying and destroying themselves

[@marcusdaloia2974]

Yeah that was a fucking _hell_ of a time snarl they ended up with.

[@mac6na6na26]

Each of the wrinkles were actually portals into another timeline in which it accesses more wrinkles which are actually portals, and so on and so on where at infinity there are actual brain wrinkles, so the amount of brain power you have in equivalent to infinity to the power of infinity.

[@Collisto2435]

“Okay that puts you in check” “Wait in what timeline am I in check?” “You’ll find out” This game in a nutshell

[@imbw267]

19:30 :)

[@sgtrazorclaw1033]

"and so will I!"

[@sirius1320]

You see check as a "!", but only, if the Present is in this timeline. You have to move in the present, the rest is optional. (The Present is this big Line in the middle)

[@pokefanbro673]

This is literally the definition of both: "I'm four parallel universes ahead of you." & "I'm doing 1,000 calculations a second, and they're all wrong!"

[@MsNotorials]

Finally, a game immune to backseat gaming.

[@ParadoxAAA]

"Bro you should move your queen to the yesterday where you moved tomorrow's knight to the today that you moved that one pawn yesterday"

[@WeegeSeries]

GOD DAMMIT

[@MsNotorials]

@@WeegeSeries ?

[@CastafioreOnYoutube]

@@WeegeSeries silence backseater

[@seantaggart7382]

Me: AAAAAAAAAA

[@fefehaulas]

Normal chess: hm.. Good move 5d chess: Why you do normal moves? Just create another timeline

[@sunsetskye483]

_Just make more_

[@-minushyphen1two379]

Jurassic rook

[@AMan-xz7tx]

virgin 2D chess grandmaster: what?! HOW IS THAT CHECK?!? chad 5D chess amateur: I have no clue. by the way, checkmate

[@funniguussee]

Imagine thinking you've won but decades later on your deathbed you realise your bloodline lost centuries ago

[@DevilsAdvocate4231]

Okay Jojo

[@internetexplorerchan2697]

Pucci annihilates all Joestars but ended in bitterweet ending.

[@stove3517]

If you played this in real life, you'd need: a warehouse; hundreds of boards; like 40 people that mark current boards; thousands of white and black flags; someone to mark the present; and people with string, chalk, or like managing a vr thing that everyone is hooked into, to signify transfers and that shit.

[@МатвейКирик]

Or just a two more dimensions to add to our 3

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

Also like 20 refs that know the game and so maybe one of them would know what the hell is actually going on.

[@sparkfrog777]

And the best part is this game doesn't use the 3rd dimension, which is actually used in 4d chess which is another whole thing

[@stove3517]

@@sparkfrog777 oh yeah lol

[@AMan-xz7tx]

@@МатвейКирик or just one more, if you're okay with stacking boards like 4D jenga blocks

[@connorcook6813]

This is probably the best 5D chess content I've seen. Everything else I've seen is vs the computer and done by people who like, play chess for a living. That isn't what this game is about, it's about screwing around until someone wins for no reason.

[@DamageMaximo]

no

[@bagelninja3264]

DamageMaximo yes

[@Mr-vy7zf]

I remember seeing somewhere on YT a duel for "Rank 1" between 2 humans, one is (pardon my memory if I mistake) Linx 5D and other was Dreamer

[@yugodeandrawirayudha4908]

"Screwing around until someone wins for no reason" Me and my friend

[@BauerMan24]

In the beginning, yes, if you plan to play and get good, then no. Otherwise you could say this about regular chess. Watching two beginner players play chess (I"m a class B player) is painful. But if you were to analyze their moves it would be random until there is an accidental stalemate normally, or threatening mate in 1 will be the end because the other player wont see it.

[@pouyapourmehran9770]

1 : Ey bro your king is in check. 2 : which one?

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

I keep hearing the Vsause theme in every single one of these comments, and it's driving me insane!

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

Or do I? **Vsause Theme Plays**

[@teedeegremlin]

@@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5 Hey Vsauce! Michael here.

[@BFDI_Leaf]

@@teedeegremlin today we're gonna look at parallel universes.

[@storm_fling1062]

@@BFDI_Leaf *end of the video* and thats why hot dogs are a sandwich

[@Bone8380]

They got so deep into alternate dimensions that they completely forgot that nothing they do matters until The Present catches up to the board. Its like if in normal chess you brainjacked two players together and they got so deep into future moves they never moved a piece on the real board, resulting in zero progress despite the intense mental effort going on.

[@axc0mmt]

There isn’t a tutorial in this game because the even the creator doesn’t understand it

[@nef36]

The puzzles and numerous variants speak otherwise

[@AAxolotl1]

Honestly if there was a tutorial it would take a good hour and a half based on how complicated this game is it took my friend playing it and me telling him how to play took a good 45 minutes

[@NakedUnderMyClothes]

For real, I read the guide and that's a challenge in and of itself. I need a guide for the guide.

[@syweb2]

The creator made an actual tutorial eventually, upon realizing how unintuitive and hard to understand the game is.

[@xxwarmouthxx]

there is a tutorial

[@Drakonus_]

What's mind blowing is that we're in a timeline where we're watching people play chess in different timelines.

[@TheeFlashbackMan]

imagine that play in different timeline

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

In 5D chess, the dimensions are: X: left and right on a board. Y: up and down on a board. Z: forwards and backwards in time. Alpha: boards that are on the same turn count as the present (different branches) Beta: boards that branched off of a given board (different branching points). Since knights in regular chess move two spaces in one dimension and one space in another dimension, the same is true in 5D chess. A knight can move two spaces to the left, and one back in time, one space upwards and two spots down a newly-branched timeline, one board forwards in time and two spaces to the right, and so on. At least, that's how I understand it. Still don't get diagonal moves.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Diagonal moves move 1 dimension in time and 1 dimension in space So like the bishop moves 1 in the y axis and 1 in the x axis to move diagonally but in 4d you can move 1 in the y axis and 1 in the time axis

[@AMan-xz7tx]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real which is how you get bishops that look like they can check like rooks. suitably cursed, as it should be

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@AMan-xz7tx like the 4d Gods intended

[@oneleaf11]

this game is technically 4d, as the pieces and boards don’t have height.

[@samwilde8311]

​@@oneleaf11 the 3rd dimension is used as an intermediary to more easily display the higher dimensions

[@Kompoteek]

Time traveller: **kicks the rock** "I guess nothing will happen" Timeline:

[@thatguynamedgeorge9218]

This is gold. This is also probably tru.

[@donovanmahan2901]

the TVA: 0:00

[@10Tabris01]

Kicks the rook, you mean

[@vp21ct]

Fun idea: Every time a new timeline is created, take a shot.

[@marvolofarhel1578]

Dear god

[@amf3118]

Multi-temporaly drunk

[@inertinertia9514]

Getting more drunk as the game gets more complicated, beautiful

[@_The_Dumbass_]

I don't think they should do that, because no one wants to cause alchohol poisoning

[@mr.p215]

A friend tried it and is now in a coma 10/10, can recommend.

[@bluehairedemon]

"Why are you doing normal moves? That's so boring" *proceeds to win the game*

[@LimeyLassen]

tfw there are more timelines than there are turns taken.

[@orange_man_from]

Harnessing the big brain to count our timelines vs. moves. It's just the Limey way

[@flatearthtruth1298]

@@orange_man_from Make that reply the most liked ever

[@darknessblades]

The ultimate challenge in this game: win by Stalemates on at least 64 different timelines.

[@353-d8o]

"win by stablemates"

[@beriukay]

"How would they even train generals for this shit?" Keep sending them into the past until they pass the class?

[@existenceisrelative]

I've honestly been waiting for a video where people are actually having fun with this game.

[@NA-pz9qf]

The moment I heard about 5D chess, I had to watch it. There is ground here for prodigies to create new moves, but until then... Wii shopping music played casually made this even better

[@sawderf741]

"You are smart" in katimari damacy is also good.

[@arka5429]

I don't want to be that guy, but wouldn't it be "when" instead of "where", and let's be honest, it would be hilarious to hear them say things like "I have you on check everywhen"

[@flatearthtruth1298]

Technically the boards all still fit on the plane, so they're locations and not times.

[@sky_0f_blue979]

If it helps you can think of them referring to locations on their screen, instead of timelines

[@denis441166]

35:06 "A rookie mistake" hahahahaha

[@glitchygang702]

This is literally the legend of zelda's timeline

[@andromeda4917]

When you realise that this game also has princesses, dragons and unicorns:☠ It's basically if Terminator, D&D and chess had children and then let them grow up to be chainsmokers

[@jonathangoodwin5609]

Wait what? Where?!

[@Masworder]

Quality content for a small channel, epic.

[@KWCHope]

Me: Not understanding a damn thing Random Guy: This is some BlazBlue shit Me: Immediately understands the complexity of the situation

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

I ALSO THOUGHT OF THIS TOO AHAHAHAHAH

[@timothygiese6726]

"NOOOO, YOU CANT JUST USE QUEENS TO MAKE NEW TIMELINES" "Haha, chessboard goes brrrrrrrr"

[@Near_Void]

Its like normal chess, if normal chess is the MIT Math finals and you are blindfolded and you hold your pencil with a pair of chopsticks while handcuffed

[@flatearthtruth1298]

Behind your back

[@oneleaf11]

During a tornado

[@eritsia]

underwater

[@tylerian4648]

The bright side is you only have to get a better score than another guy in the exact same situation.

[@icedqq]

@@tylerian4648that _is_ 5d chess

[@ulysses9488]

This game is like little kids saying 'Uh uh, I totally got your king' 'When?' 'In the uh... NEW timeline!'

[@spirk314]

If this is hard to understand, I have a concept of "8 dimensional chess with deparadoxing timelines, and megaverse timelines that intercept"

[@MrSonny6155]

I split my character's soul into 7 horcruxes so I can level them separately at 7 times the speed without XP gain scaling. Then I resolved a cross-timeline merge request to multiply my main level exponentially!

[@D.KlWA-aG]

get back

[@saqvobase4301]

This game is the meme of "I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you"

[@Azure9577]

Lol

[@voidfirestudios]

The shot at the beginning killed me instantly

[@derekdeng9734]

This is going to be recommended 9 years in the future. I can see it

[@DynoKea]

Literally only strategies I can think of are: 1. Don't move the king to decrease the number of possible checks 2. Get those rooks moving. When checked you can send them back in time to delay the present

[@Lachrymogenic]

I can't wait for one of them to get into an argument, and one goes "I beat you in 5D chess, so get fucked"

[@KlineStife]

it has already happened repeatedly

[@nef36]

Tips: Moving between the present of two timelines doesn't create any new timelines, and has the most impact, since your moving between boards where the pieces are still moving. (most important) Imagine the boards being stacked on top of each other when moving pieces, especially when moving diagonally. You _could_ send your bishop back in time to assassinate your opponent's queen in the past, but that doesn't get rid of the queen on the board the bishop departed from, it just makes a board where they don't have a queen. This could be used to coordinate an attack under the board the bishop departed from, and the further you move back, the more time you have to set it up, but the more time the opponent can set up counterplay, so moving back in time could be risky if you get outmaneuvered before the new timeline reaches the present. You can protect pieces on other boards, which makes stacking pieces a lot more complicated, since you could plant a Queen under a pawn you plan to take, or a knight you don't want the opponent to take. The timelines coded by purple arrows are timelines that must progress. Check in that timeline may not be stalled, and neither player may refuse to move. A timeline with a white arrow is a timeline created by white after making two timelines before black made a timeline. Black may move those timelines if they wish, but if they do not, white can't make moves in those timelines, and they may only make one move per move black makes, so black could arbitrarily decide to stop moving that timeline, and white can't do anything about it. Vice versa for timelines with black arrows. If, say black starts making timelines after white made 7, then those 7 will slowly become purple as black makes more timelines, activating them as timelines that must move. This mechanic was put in so one player doesn't make 20 timelines (hey) for the hell of it. Opening traps are really nasty. An example is 1.e4, e5. 2.Qh5, Nf6. 3.Qxe5#. Another one is Qa4 is mate a few moves after black moves their D pawn (these work in reverse) EDIT: The purple timelines only need to be moved when the present line is on top of those timelines' presents.

[@KlineStife]

i'll be sure to utilize all that when we next play, thanks for the tips.

[@nef36]

@@KlineStife np

[@syweb2]

Wow, I didn't know that's what made the white timeline arrows. Thanks!

[@Azure9577]

Wat

[@No-ok1rj]

@@Azure9577 Thank you, I thought i was the only one.

[@Zweiloushead]

As someone who's owned 5D chess for about a week, this is accurate to actually playing with friends

[@hauntedbedsheet]

He made the intro at the end and traveled back to the beginning of the video to create an alternate timeline with the new intro and where he loses the game. So technically, you won

[@primetime3422]

Just imagine 5d chess with multiverses time travel, with 5 players.

[@YuTEM]

"this is anime I need to explain your moves". I see you are a man of timelines that coalign with our civilization cultures as well, timeline.

[@Marqan]

"When you send a piece to the past, the alternate reality becomes the present... it's very straightforward."

[@TheEndiPL]

Next do quantum tunneling chess where any chess piece can spontanously swap places with another

[@EK321]

Imagine Blitz mode in this

[@GeorgeCowsert]

Ya know how people joke about how every choice makes a new timeline? I have a feeling that doesn't happen with this game, because it would break the CPU of reality.

[@WaterDroplet02]

you dont HAVE to move the future boards, just the present ones. in some cases the best thing to do is to not move any of the future boards and have the present catch up edit: you totally would have won if you did that exact thing and caught the present up to the checkmated timelines

[@KlineStife]

yeah, we figured that out around 4/5 through the game but by then our brains were so fried that we weren't thinking at all.

[@Drakonus_]

@@KlineStife Lmao, it's ironic that thinking harder in this game actually makes you dumber.

[@syweb2]

@@KlineStife You don't even need to use all of the boards. The offshoots marked by white arrows are not required to move, so you can just leave them be.

[@Mernom]

Moving a future board can setup a lock and force the opponent to focus on it.

[@doctheodore26]

7:13 is just the perfect jojo moment

[@zeromailss]

I just found this game from RTGame so I randomly search for gameplay to help me understand the rule, thanks to you now I can somewhat understand how the game work, it was fun to watch too

[@slugma_nuts]

Every now and then I come back to this video (or a certain other geoguesser one) for comfort or to avoid studying. Thank you for creating this masterpiece

[@ghostfaceinyourbathroom2190]

I got recommended this at 3 am and i sat there in my bed just thinking “what in the actual sweet home Alabama fuck have humans created”

[@irrelevantgaymer6195]

It’s going to be so interesting when some big brain person develops a positional eval function to create a 5D chess engine, like the computer could potentially think of all dimensions where us humans struggle with a lot of timelines, watching computers play might be very interesting and savage

[@Slaziel]

"OH MY GOD, IT'S ANOTHER TIME LINE"

[@firelasto]

is it bad that i can completly understand how this game would be played and that these people are the 5d equivilent of dogs eating their own king?

[@KlineStife]

probably bad, yeah

[@exolight_fr]

Hey guys, because of you, I just played two games with my friends. Played chess like 5 times in my life. It is now 2am, and I have accidentally won my two games. Still have absolutely no fucking idea about how I did that. I think my forehead is expending. Or maybe it's just a headache from all the timelines that were created. In any case, thanks for making me discover this game by total accident. 10/10 would play again.

[@MethodiaLordae]

>Persona crashed and didn't save I'd be mad too

[@NugisBiboSchicken]

the queen of England is the terminator she's immortal because past versions replace the present one whenever she dies

[@name2865-n2y]

Hi yes I am a random watcher who's never even played chess, I totally understood this, thanks for a really clear tutorial lmao

[@BoulderWraith]

Pawns could actually be the best secret killers They should be able to kill one space in front and one space back in time right? So pro tip, pawns have medusa eyes.

[@Fail-harold]

"Check" "When"

[@cinderare]

Which one Where what timeline

[@buacamolijarvis7671]

Not only did i find a cool dude on yt, i also got my brain melted

[@MusikCassette]

24:00 the way to force someone tor advance a timeline is, to not create new timelines and wait to the present catches up.

[@thgrxxll]

you ended it with the intro, so, the entire video was a move you did from the end to the start to put another timeline in game, so we can count that the total of timelines isn't 25, it's in fact 50

[@yzfrsh]

I was literally about to type this 🤯🤯 are you me from another timeline??

[@thgrxxll]

@@yzfrsh soo, is it already that time? It seems like you have to know, wait for 5 years form now at that moment a very important decisión is going to apear in front of you, you're going to travel 7 years to the past and make your way to this video and discover this coment doesn't exist, but you remember that yourself told you to put this coment at that moment to not break the ongoing timeline So yes, i'm you from the future, in another timeline

[@yzfrsh]

@@thgrxxll oh boy you’re from the future? I just came back from the future and was told to comment “I was literally about to type this” to receive further instructions. I was also told someone else was going to show up here, someone who I need to pass a message onto...

[@thgrxxll]

@@yzfrsh wait, to one who told you the message was an old us?

[@magictoaster2996]

I remember my first game of 5d chess. I played like a true idiot and won.

[@creepykoala7255]

18:38 Perfect summary of this video.

[@gulgaffel]

13:08, the grid in the background is dragged out a bit to include two boards in one axis to make diagonals easier to see.

[@akaruiyami0015]

This is the game where "I am 4 parallel universe ahead of you" meme make sense when you win

[@TerraStorm]

Im gona pretend i understood everything that is happening

[@Gale42]

you were blessed by youtube recommendations

[@finalplot8773]

I have never seen such an incomprehensible board won in such a normal way

[@donovanmahan2901]

i just imagine the bot chugging for several minutes trying to calculate a decent set of moves to make in that board

[@stapuft]

the optimal play for this game has apparently already been found, and its like a 3 turn 2 timeline checkmate. and the final move is the move that makes the second timeline...so basically the "optimal" way to play is 99% normal chess and only 1% shenanigans.

[@altered_dev]

Finally, a board game that lasts longer than Monopoly

[@Ghiaman1334]

"Are ya winning son?" "You could not possibly understand"

[@Arniox]

You can indeed force a checkmate in the past by constantly moving the present to that timeline. But they can escape by moving pieces to the past and moving the present backwards. It's how I won my first game. The AI kept saving itself by forcing the present backwards to avoid progressing a checkmate board. So I only played past boards to force that board to progress, causing a check mate and winning.

[@danjoy2]

This is what happened after Loki killed the time keeper.

[@softed]

Regular chess: -Check. -Where? 5D chess: -Check. -When?

[@communistcat967]

This video is not simply a video, it's a whole fuckin journey

[@jonathanodude6660]

i get the feeling that if you hadn't advanced timelines so far away from the present, you could have had available moves in the spacetime around the losing dimensions

[@KlineStife]

friend, if i was playing the game with a brain, we wouldn't have gone past three timelines.

[@pepitodelrancho]

0:54 Killer Queen! Bites the Dust!! “my ability has now activated all your previous actions are in vain”

[@adriantheasian7162]

The KZbin algorithm has blessed this video

[@nicole_animate4555]

Strat: make a fuck ton of timelines to confuse the other player and get all the queens into one spot to make the other player give up.

[@jayjay5739]

ending with the intro is the real 5d chess move

[@LCCWPresents]

Best stratigy would be to play normal chess as long as possible to prevent the oponet from using the multiple timelines to govenator people and use the rock as your main time travel pieces.

[@CathPaluigi]

finally, a good summary of Umineko

[@Subhuman1342]

LMFAO,dubs

[@sunsetskye483]

This video is two idiots playing chess and having no clue why they won. This is thoroughly entertaining.

[@fikriansyahadzaka6647]

Very nice content! Please add more content like this where you guys are having fun playing together

[@JadeyJ4d3y]

5D Chess : where every chess piece have a Time Machine made out of a Delorean

[@teedeegremlin]

Yeah I need to play this and destroy what's left of my brain now.

[@glorifiedpotato1372]

i dont know how many braincells died comprhending this