A game of chess, even in the 3d world, takes part on a 2d plane

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    In normal chess, time doesn’t really exist in the normal way that a dimension works. Using one or more time dimensions in a game means you need to be able to control some movement along that axis. In normal chess, every piece moves one “space” (for lack of a better word) forward in time with each move.

    If you want to actually see time dimensions being used in a game, try playing 5d chess with multiverse time travel

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
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      9 days ago

      The same can be said for real life. Time is a temporal dimension, not a spatial one, so everything must only move through it in one direction, and usually does so at a constant rate. (Taking relativity into account things move more slowly through time at high velocities but that’s not applicable to most of our world).