Arthur was a man of simple pleasures. He liked toast, linear time, and chess pieces that stayed dead when you captured them. His friend, Kevin, was a "Timeline Optimizer."
: You can win by checkmating any king on any timeline, even one in the past that has already "occurred".
: You can attack your opponent’s past king, but that creates a branch where the opponent’s future self never exists – however, the original timeline persists, so the opponent can still move pieces from that original branch. The game becomes a parallel-processing conflict.
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