Analysis of a 4 player chess game
https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/28756221/0/2
In this post, I would like to highlight a strategic situation in 4pc by taking a game played by @kshaunish4, @bestari3645, @plarte, and @Niburu_Me (like above).
The strategic situation arrives where you have a good position to attack but you are forced to defend and abandon your well set attacking position. This is the reason, in my view, for this game lasting so far. Both teams exhaust their attacking resources and end up without queens on the board.
The first abandon attack occurs after one of the set ups I like the most in 4pc, on move 8. Blue directs his knight to c11, seeing that the Green queen can go to e12, which leads to check and an enormous advantage. Yellow defends well with the queen on e11, but can’t prevent the rook to fall in d13, with the threat from the Green queen to capture the knight on e14 and check in the first line. Yet, Red positions ifs queen on f9 threatening mate to Green and therefore compelling Green to abandon attack and defend. The team Blue-Green needs to abandon a good attack and come to defense. A clever offensive play by the team Red-Yellow.
The game develops with a new check by bishop in l7, on move 14 . Note that Blue's knight can't assist to mate here because it is preventing a mate by the Red and Yellow queens, by blocking Red queen on d8. So, while nice, Blue-Green attack is going nowhere for the moment.
Flash forward to Move 25. Here it is the turn of Red-Yellow to abandon their attack. Red queen checks on l8, with its rook supporting to potentially deliver mate by moving to k9. But Blue rook checks on j1 and the mate is upset. This defense by Blue develops in a beautiful rook sac that leads to Red losing his queen in move 27. Nice combo by Blue-Green. From now I believe the Blue-Green team has a clear advantage with three rooks against two, and one of Red's rooks trapped in underdevelopment. The game actually lasts until move 49 and ends with a King capture.
gg
(analyse from @ces777 )
