Also!! This game is only 4D, the 5D is a lie. There are only 2 special dimension and 2 'time' dimensions. If it were really 5D it would be a conceptual NIGHTMARE to display. More than it already is. It bugs me a lot because it makes it harder to wrap your head around.
I mean, you can add the time travel to 3D chess so you have XYZ axis (axes?), and then back and forth through time and sideways through time.
Easy
Well, I suck at chess, so...
Like you already have xyz axis in 3D so adding time would be adding different 3D frames of more XYZ axis for it to be called 4D...but that's what chess irl is so I'm fairly curious about how 4d chess in this game works
Regular chess is 3D, but the time dimension is so hard to use it might as well be ignored. Much like how we call our reality 3D even though there's a 4th Time Dimension.
On a purely spacial level, Chess is 2D. And this Other Chess is also only* 2D.
In Chess this is where it ends, one board and nothing else.
In Other Chess the time dimension is made spacial, and you're given methods to interact with it. They essentially double the special dimensions. Putting it to 4. Making it 4D. Once again, the TRUE time dimension is ignored because it's impossible to use. You really just play with 4 Spacial dimensions ((with some rules)) and nothing else.
It's only hard if you make it hard. And if you cling to the idea that it's *time* travel, rather than just a different form of space travel.
Also!! This game is only 4D, the 5D is a lie. There are only 2 special dimension and 2 'time' dimensions. If it were really 5D it would be a conceptual NIGHTMARE to display. More than it already is. It bugs me a lot because it makes it harder to wrap your head around.
Easy
Well, I suck at chess, so...
On a purely spacial level, Chess is 2D. And this Other Chess is also only* 2D.
In Chess this is where it ends, one board and nothing else.
In Other Chess the time dimension is made spacial, and you're given methods to interact with it. They essentially double the special dimensions. Putting it to 4. Making it 4D. Once again, the TRUE time dimension is ignored because it's impossible to use. You really just play with 4 Spacial dimensions ((with some rules)) and nothing else.