I have no pices to move on certan boards

[Restless Gamer]

so I lost all pices on a board as a result of time travel and just losing them to my oponant, I'm black in this example:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2255198048

so how do I resolve this without moving another pice to this board?

[Sigmund Froid]

Except forfeiting the game, no. There are no better solutions.

[Charanth]

In ordinary chess if you cannot make a legal move that's a stale mate... not a forfeit.

[Sigmund Froid]

There are legal moves, just none that OP want's to do, moving pieces to that board.

[Restless Gamer]

what if I cant move pices to that bord

[Perseus]

Originally posted by Damon:

what if I can't move pieces to that board?

Then you have to time travel to the past.

[DeathBS]

that just creates an alt timeline without adding a peace to the empty board... also, how can the computer just ignore a board...

[Sigmund Froid]

No, because you can play the board in the past, until you can send a piece from that alternate timeline to the empty board.

[Xangi]

I'm getting the distinct impression that this game needs a better tutorial, specifically outlining how the "present" works. It's not that hard to understand but it isn't really explained.

[lozacenz]

Originally posted by Xangi:

I'm getting the distinct impression that this game needs a better tutorial, specifically outlining how the "present" works. It's not that hard to understand but it isn't really explained.

Present is simple: If there are more timeline branches on your side of the original timeline than on your opponent's before you go back in time, the present doesn't move. Otherwise, it does.

You are only obligated to move on boards which are currently in the present before ending your turn.

If there is a board in the present you cannot move on, and you cannot use time travel to move the present, and you cannot move a piece onto said board from another board, a stalemate occurs.

I won't dispute that the game could do with a better tutorial though. ... Well, except in so far as a better written rules document with appropriate diagrams would probably be sufficient.

[denventor42]

Is there a way to make the game just ignore the movement requirement on boards with 1 or fewer colors of pieces on it? It's too easy to force a "stalemate" on smaller boards... and if you're playing the CPU, the only option is for the Player to forfeit, which feels more like a glitch than the CPU cleverly baiting you into taking its last pawn (thus forcing you to concede).

[Trixbeat]

Actually if there are no legal moves, it's stalemate, if there are legal moves you are forced to make them, so you are forced to move into the board or go into the past in those situations. Closest thing to zugzwang in 5D chess