Watch the World Solo 4 Player Chess Championship Final live this Saturday!
This Saturday, four players will fight for the inaugural World Free-For-All/Solo Championship of Four Player Chess, a new Chess.com variant where each game is contested by four sets of pieces.
- Watch the Four Player Chess championship this Saturday, June 1, live on Twitch.tv/chess at 2 p.m. PST / 5 p.m. EST.
- New to Four Player Chess? Read our guide to the game for rules and strategy, and then jump in to play.
The four finalists won their way through a field of 16 in earlier play to reach the finals. The championship will be determined by 3 sessions of play in a best-of-9 format. The first player to reach 3 points will be declared the champion. The current schedule for this Championship Final:
Games 1-3: Saturday, June 1 21:00 UTC (2pm PST) Streamers: @NedPencil and @TeamsterZizo, informally known as the Teamsters
Games 4-6: Saturday, June 8 21:00 UTC (2pm PST) Streamer: Wouter Bik (@BikFoot)
Games 7+: Saturday, June 15 21:00 UTC (2pm PST) Streamer: IM Daniel Rensch (@DanielRensch)
Bik and Rensch are popular chess.com streamers and commentators. The Teamsters are well-respected streamers and commentators in the 4 player chess community. These four chess personalities will comment on all the World 4 Player Chess Championship action while explaining the rules and basic strategies to the audience.
A game of Anonymous Solo Four Player Chess (from the last game of Round 3 in the Championship).
The top two seeds from the field of 16 qualified for the final; in order, these players are Justin Davis (@JustinD7) of United Kingdom and @Fifth_Something of Japan. Both players were among the top few highest rated FFA players on many occasions which include those shortly after 4 Player Chess was released to chess.com. Biljan Popadic (@neoserbian), a lawyer from Serbia, took an early qualification in the Winner’s Bracket during the second preliminary round. Evgeny Miller (@JonasRath) of Canada, a rising player topping the FFA leaderboard and reaching nearly 1900 rating this year, will round off the finalists.
Unlike in Teams, Free-For-All/Solo players have varying strategies from aggressive to conservative to opportunistic to a mix of them. The games are anonymous but the players will guess who each other are based on play and sometimes change their strategies to camouflage and/or hide their identities. No one will want a single player to run away with a victory, so elite play from all will make this match interesting!
Championship Format:
- 1 minute + 15 second delay; Anonymous, standard 8th rank promotion as 1-point queen, and no en-passant or new dead-king-walk feature.
- Winner of each game earns a 1-0 score and 4th place earns 0-1 score; 2nd/3rd earn 0-0. 2-way ties for last or first will be split in half and 3-way ties in thirds. In 4 way ties all players earn “0.25-0.25” for that game. The first to reach 3-x during the Championship will be declared the 2019 Inaugural World FFA/Solo Champion.
- After each game, players will rematch each other and the matchmaker will pick randomly.
- A tiebreak (if needed) will be played in games 10-12. This is, if no one has reached a win score of 3 yet.
- If two players reach “3” at the same time, the winner goes to whoever has the lowest Loss score. If their score is the exact same, the player with higher score in the next most recent game will be declared the 2019 Inaugural World FFA/Solo Champion. If all four players draw during all 12 games, the winner goes to whoever moved last before the draw, second to whoever moved second to last, etc.
- The 2019 Inaugural World FFA/Solo Champion will earn a 5-year Premium Membership on chess.com. Second and third place players will each earn a 2-year Premium Membership. Fourth place will earn a 1-year Premium Membership.
- Second, third and fourth places will be determined based on their Win-Loss scores in the Championship Final.
More Information:
- Four Player Chess Championship Information / Results (must join club to read):
- Four Player Championship Rules
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