In bughouse chess, there are 2 teams of 2 players. And 2 boards, too. Teammates play on separate boards and opposite colors. When you capture a piece, it goes into your teammate's storehouse.Your teammate can, instead of making a normal move, put a piece on the board from the storehouse. Pieces can only be placed on vacant squares. Pawns may not be placed on the first and last rank. If a promoted pawn is captured, it becomes a pawn in the storehouse. The game ends as soon as anybody gets checkmated. So even if you are about to lose in one turn, but your teammate checkmates his/her opponent your team wins. The game will start as soon as we have 4 players ready to go. Post your move using algebraic notation. When placing a piece from the storehouse, use the @ symbol in your notation. For example to place a knight from the store house on d6, type N@d6. When I see a move posted I will update and flip the diagram. Also, the games are not simultaneous. Board A can be on move 20 while board B is on move 2. Please post something when you join so that I know. Make sure you track this topic so that you know when it is your move. Have fun!

 Players and pieces in hand:

Board A White Team 1: - falling-upwards - P

Board B Black Team 1: - pompom - N

Board A Black Team 2: - orinoco_w - P

Board B White Team 2: -  TheMouse - B

Overall Move list (by order posted):

1. B. e4
2. A. e4
3. B. c5
4. A. d6
5. A. Bc4
6. A. e6
7. A. Nc3
8. A. a6
9. A. d4
10. A. b5
11. A. Bd3
12. A. Bb7
13. B. Nf3
14. A. Nf3
15. B. e6
16. B. c3
17. B. Nc6
18. A. b4
19. A. Ne2
20. A. Nf6
21. A. Bg5
22. B. d4
23. A. Be7
24. B. cxd4
25. B. cxd4
26. A. Bxf6
27. A. Rb1
28. B. Nf6
29. B. Nc3

Individual Move List (by order made on each board):

A.

1. e4 d6
2. Bc4 e6
3. Nc3 a6
4. d4 b5
5. Bd3 Bb7
6. Nf3 b4
7. Ne2 Nf6
8. Bg5 Be7
9. Bxf6 Bxf6
10. Rb1

B.

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 e6
3. c3 Nc6
4. d4 cxd4
5. cxd4 Nf6
6. Nc3

I wanna play

I'll play

I would like to play. This looks very much like the "transfer chess" I used to play in highschool.

Why are there moves on the board?

Woo hoo! We have our 4th. The moves on the board? I think oinquarki made moves on the wrong bughouse boards. They should be the bug 9 moves maybe?

Okay - welcome aboard get_lost - let's let oinquarki know we're ready to play (and remind falling-upwards).

i'm here

Should we start and post the boards as we go? I'm really keen to play something other than atomic chess (which I am sucky at)

idk O usually gets on around 11 or 12 (chicago time)

Board A White Team 1: - falling-upwards

Board B Black Team 1: - pompom

Board A Black Team 2: - orinoco_w

Board B White Team 2: - get_lost

Overall Move list (by order posted):

Oh, a couple of quick things while I'm posting

(1) can we check and checkmate with a drop move?

(2) do pawns promote?

Sorry about that. I didn't see your post there! I guess it just - Warning: lame joke ahead - "got lost" somehow.

i play with yes to both of those questions

Cool! Let's play!

e4

1... c5

1.e4 d6

.

Bc4

1.e4 d6 2.Bc4 e6

Nc3