I asked a taxi driver in Bucharest to take the quickest route to the airport. 10 minutes later we’re doing 120kph the wrong way done the street car tracks when another taxi tried to pass us and dude just floors it. Never spoke a word, smoked 9 cigarettes over the 30 minute ride, never took off his sunglasses and blasting opera all the way. I look at it as paying 15€ plús tip to lose all fear of death.
the “i am from russia” was both a warning and a promise, and one that would weirdly put me at ease about the situation.
Okay, against the best wishes of my mental health, I’ve decided to start playing 5d chess with multiverse time travel.
It was an okay opening. I played a variation of the london system opening which tends to lead to slow yet interesting positional games.
But then the computer sent a knight back in time, and a few moves later, I realised I could send my own knight back in time to get an enemy bishop.
And that was when chaos ensued.
At first I could keep track of the game ok and felt like I was understanding the rules. But then, some timelines started breaking off the present and staying in the past, becoming unplayable.
I thought this meant I had lost some pieces, especially when two of my queens got stuck in the past.
But then, I somehow managed to reset the whole thing back to the past and then the game picked up some timelines that had gotten broken off, leaving most of the other dimensions in the future.
I got excited as this meant I got back my two queens which were previously stuck in the past.
But a few moves and timelines later, the game seemingly crashed and has been looking for legal turns for the past 20 minutes.
All in all, I genuinely love this game. As a STEM major and chess enthusiast, I feel like 5D chess is awakening the mad scientist in me. I’m looking forward to playing this game loads in order to reach my final form in this timeline and in all others.
this post has the energy of a scientist who just blew something up in a way they hadn’t expected and is now excitedly taking notes
