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Yes, that sounds stupid. Of course it is a teams variant. Why wouldn't it be? This is a topic I haven's seen talked about on here at all. It shouldn't have to. Yet, I feel it does, particularly for 1200 and lower rated players, 4 PC Teams is a teams variant. That means the whole game is designed to be a cooperative effort. Thus, it is important to your winning strategy that you learn how to use the arrows (right click and drag) to plan your moves with your teammate. It is vital to your survival. A coordinated team will beat an un-coordinated one every time (in my experience). Coordination is really helpful in both attacking and defending. An attack from both players at the same time is really hard to defeat. It will often require giving up material, or intervention from your partner. Maybe both! Further, coordinated defense can save you numerous times, especially if you're only being attack by one player. Working with your teammate can result in a defense that doesn't even require you to do something--your teammate can take care of that for you. Sure, don't make them do all the work, but my point is this: Coordination is a strong tactic/strategy that will win you the game! Un-coordinated teams are easier to exploit primarily because their defense is uncoordinated. Thus, your coordinated attack is much harder to stop. One opponent is basically subject to all of your attacks without their teammate's intervention. I've found that there are two easy signs that your opponent (or you) is un-coordinated. 1. One teammate sets up an attack--sometimes even mate--and then,for no apparent reason, the other teammate doesn't follow through. I don't know how many times this has happened to me. Dozens, maybe. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing your opponent have mate, and then mess it up because of un-coordination. If your teammate sets up an attack, help them out and follow through. If anything the worst that will happen is that you'll lose together. Best case scenario, you have a really strong attack. 2. One teammate badmouths their teammate in the /all chat. This often will happen after #1 happens, but not always. Usually one teammate is ticked off at the other and calls them an idiot. The minute this happens, I relax. I know it will be an easy win. They are un-coordinated, and I am usually not. Thus, easy win. I should add that badmouthing your teammate is a really bad idea. For one, it's not kind, but, beyond that, it tells your opponent that you can't work as a team--making you easy to exploit. Plus, if you weren't already in trouble, your teammate is probably now mad at you for calling them an idiot, or whatever, increasing your coordination problems.

What're you guys thinking to get better at 4PC? Play Arenas. Yeah it's fun, there're also some good opponents to play with. And also the Wheel of Fortune chess that you can be interested of. Why're you guys just playing normal games and you can just play arenas and get new matches immediately? No one are playing arenas now. There're some, but not much. Look at normal chess, you see, hundreds of players playing arenas at look at ours 4PC. No one? That's very deadly. Try to improve that 4PC is the most popular variant in the Chess.com community!!!!

Hello! I made this FFA variant with unequal starting material that encourages teamwork between players. If red, blue, and yellow fight, then green will crush them with their material advantage. If green falls, then red, blue, and yellow have to fight over who reaches the hill. I think it's a pretty interesting concept! Time control is 2 minutes 3 second increment. Name is MRBLKN One-Front. Games: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=4400673-0 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=4400514-0 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=4400298-0 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=4400110-0 https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=4399984-0 Screenshot: FEN4: R-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0-6,yR,yN,yK,yB,4/6,yP,yP,yN,yB,X,3/7,yP,yP,X,X,3/9,X,X,gK,X,X/bB,bP,3,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X/bR,bN,bP,1,X,X,X,X,X,X,2,gP,gP/bK,bN,bP,1,X,X,gQ,gN,gB,3,gP,gP/bB,bP,2,X,X,gQ,gN,gB,3,gP,gP/4,X,X,X,X,X,X,2,gP,gP/5,X,X,X,X,X,X,3/8,X,X,4/4,rP,rP,8/3,rP,rP,rN,rB,7/3,rR,rN,rK,rB,7

Look at the game https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/65652753/5/2 Already blue is in trouble if yellow puts bishop on kings diagonal. If one move is played the game should not be aborted.

When I was playing a variant called warui shogi, I captured a chariot and it becomes a rook in my army. when I place the rook down, It is a rook not a chariot. Same goes for me playing a custom variant. I captured a sailboat and it became a rook as well!

The 8 min timer is not in the spirit of rapid. It should be removed and 10min be the minimum.  90% of the 8 min games end in a time scramble and are decided by flagging skills and I don't think such flagging skills are what a rapid leaderboard should be about. 10min should be the minimum for rapid in my opinion .

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/68452851 This is game where I had lost all of my pieces but had a point lead and I strongly feel I deserved to win the game. Yellow had a winning position, but did not have enough points to get 1st. Yellow decided to throw away all of his pieces to screw me out of my win. While yellow's behavior was reprehensible I want to take this opportunity to make a case for 2nd place. I have argued before to no avail that there should be a meaningful difference between 2nd and 3rd in FFA chess. I am not going to rehash the arguments I have made in the past, but want to illustrate this game to show that had 2nd place mattered yellow would have been incentivized to win against blue to get 2nd rather than be vindictive and decide to only stay in the game to hurt me.  For those of you who are happy with the status quo of 2nd and 3rd being equal can you at least agree that what yellow did was vile?

What was the most points you ever gotten in 4 Player Chess?

Before, I could view all of my 4PC games when searching the archive using "All Time" for the date range. Now, I am only seeing 40. Is this an update? How can I see older games?

If the number is even, divide it by 2 if it's odd multiply it by 3 and add 1 and repeat. You can choose a number to test.

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The BY Teams 4PC Festival qualifying arena has already started! Prizes 1st place: 3-month Diamond Membership (+ qualify to the Semifinals) 2nd place: 2-month Diamond Membership 3rd place: 1-month Diamond Membership How to Join Since the arena has a Self Partner format, it might not available under the 4 Player Chess section, which might be confusing. Please, 1. Go to the Self Partner Tournaments section 2. Enable "Self Partner" and "Bullet" filters & join!

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Hello All! I am doing 4pc game analysis on Youtube. I plan on going through old championship games, both FFA and Teams, as well as analyzing games people request. If you want me to analyze your game, or you were watching a game you were curious about, please let me know and I can hopefully do a Youtube video about it! Similarly, if there is a type of video you would like, such as an analysis of a certain player's games or speedruns or something, please let me know! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAodTMJL-XedN-RDGm5F3pA As for me, I am a strong FFA player and a somewhat strong Teams player, so I hope to be able to provide useful analysis. I don't want to obviously connect this channel to my "chess.com person", but please know I am someone who has been in the community for a while and has interacted with many of you. Please also provide me with feedback! I am trying to make my video's content accessible to newcomers while also providing useful analysis for returning players. Specifically, these are very analysis-focused videos (These are not meme-y or personality-centered videos at all; a 2pc channel that is probably a good contemporary is the Chessnetwork), so if you think I'm not doing a great job, if you think my analysis is too quick for newcomers or too light for strong players in places, it is very useful for me to know that. I can't change the pace, for example, without sacrificing what I want to do or spending a lot more time on this, but I can change the content and how I analyze games.

I found a glitch in the queue where I was waiting for a War For Throne game to populate, and i just got kicked from the queue when the game started - I didn't click anything and I was just waiting

Fron 18 Jun i have been suffering many prearranged team like actions,like today,red and blue lost by design for green to beat me(I played yellow).The action have not been written in report rules and this be named''control the results on oppose'',it is cheat in 2-player chess. I can do nothing so there are suggestions 1.when one whose opposite player played negatively,giveng points for his side players,he win all af the points of kings except his 2.players whose pieces is the least in the game and whose scpre is the highest will be protected specially,players cannot attack them together,or they will be lost immediately,while the next move is a checkmate is allowed. That's all.thanks

It's annoying when people cheat

Anyone wanna play