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Yellow felt helpless and resigned. If red doesn't do something quick, blue will resign and/or capture the yellow king. Red to move and save his game. Based on the current rules, what does red do? This will take 9 move cycles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmihg2zmgbk&feature=youtu.be

His turn, I say a piece he moves the piece. My turn, he says a piece I move the piece. Fun challenge! Let me know if you guys try it. My point of view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-P-_UVNBGI Victor's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7v2lOnOheA Both effectively the same, but give our videos a thumbs up and subscribe!

This bug occurs when a rook is captured, that belongs to a player that hasn't castled on that side, but would have been legally able to (i.e. their king and rook hadn't moved and the pieces in between have been moved). After the rook is captured, the player can still make the castling move, THOUGH THEY HAVE NO ROOK by moving king 2 spaces over and lo and behold, the piece that just captured the rook disappears off the board and the rook reappears in the position where in its "castled" position. Thus the player abusing this bug sudddenly has a 2 piece advantage by taking off the piece their captured their rook for free and having their rook reappear on the board. Can chess.com fix all the castling issues already? I witnessed someone doing this in Teams btw, but likely the same issue is present in FFA.

As a thanks to all of you who have stuck with us through all of our growing pains in these early stages of 4 Player Chess, we have opened up Team invites to ALL PLAYERS. You no longer need to be a Premium member to play with a friend in Teams. Enjoy!

i think i found a new scolars mate (FFA only), on move 6! ..or did y'all already know this one? i was only aware of mate on move 7. where red plays qxq and yellow protects the red Q

Disclaimer: I encourage people to play a fair game of FFA at all times. I do not encourage people to collude and prearranged team to make anything like this happen, but I'd like to share my analysis on the theoretical high score and highest number of moves in a FFA game. These are done in phases: Phase 1: Opponents get their kings out, moving pawns up only one square each and get their kings out. Hero gets Queen out. Hero triple checks them 25 times in a row before Opponent one and opponent two alternate pushing their pawns one space. Assume a triple check every move cycle. Moves: 94x25=2350. Points for Hero: 94x25x15=35250 Phase 2: Opponent one and Opponent two both resign in a position where their kings are on the same diagonal or file. Hero triple checks kings every move for 50 move cycles. Then, hero and opponent three alternate pushing pawns every 50 moves. Moves: 94x25=4700. Points for hero: 94x50x15=70500. Phase 3: Either a dead (grey) piece or a hero's or opponents piece, one at a time gets captured every 50 move cycles. Triple check every move. Moves: 60x50=3000. Points for hero: 60x50x15=45000. Phase 4: Opponent one's king gets captured, and 50 double checks are made. Moves: 50. Points: 250. Phase 5: Opponent two's king gets captured and checkmate is made on last player. M: 50 P: 40. Grand total: Moves: 10150. Points: 151083. More moves can be made if point strategy isn't made. If only one pawn is pushed at a time every 25 move cycles in the opening, then 94 becomes 96 in the two described phases (no triple checks can be assumed) and 150 moves are added for a grand total of 10300 moves. tl;dr The highest possible score is 151083 and most number of moves is 10300.

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To chess.com team: Previously we used this way to wake up a teammate: Draw an arrow, it makes sound and your teammate knows the game just started. But now the arrows are silent. As a result many players do not make their first move, because they do not know that the game started already. Please make a repeating sound that "wakes up" a player before his/her first move. Let's say, some beep with a 5 second interval.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJHHFxJkIw&t=60s

Oh, he fell for it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TALfqwUyjbM&t=0s

So I made an alt (MasterY0da) with a feeling that it might magically contribute to the accusations of Luke. Somehow it did... the first game was set to random partners and I teamed with zanimals. I then asked him about all the accusations, etc. And now, after recording a video, I am no longer suspicious of cheating activity. But I will let you all be the judges (watch the video for yourselves).To Luke and zanimals: I apologize for joining the accusation. I should learn more before jumping in. I hope that this video is helpful. Cheers gentlemen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1SIIVgPoaM&feature=youtu.be Check it out

I team with my partner TheRookBuster and our opponent's time runs down in the beginning of the game. It looks like they have lost on time. But ACTUALLY they played their move and we have not recieved what they played, and their clock is still running down as if it's still their move. I tell my partner that lag. He says that he sees my clock running down to zero. I see my opponent's clock run down to zero. But really it is me who loses on time. Sometimes it happens to my teammate, where he has the lag. I can simply watch his clock time out. This is a partnering bug.

I was just cheated out of points and it's sickening. Can I exclude cheating players? I wasn't quick enough to stop-chat and one player - topofvip - said "let's team up blue" (or w/e color the asshole was) with the player across from him - aspirine85. I never want to play them again. obviously it's highly unlikely they'll be across from each other and I'm against them but those guys should be banned.

No checkmates or stalemates can be made.

During a teams game some of the pieces disappeared. At least half of them disappeared. It happened when I played a move. Then when I play my next move the piece doesn't move where I want it to; it just stays on it's square and the next player's clock starts. They recieve the move I played, but on my board the piece hasn't moved at all! The same happens to their pieces: they move but I don't receive their moves. They have no problems. All I see is clocks running down. So in total there are two BUGS: 1. Disappearing pieces 2. Not recieving moves (the pieces are stuck on their squares after some random pieces disappear)

@aanuj96, showed me a not usual opening. We won in 5 moves. Because red was passive. Well ... yellow also could play better Blue: @aanuj96 Green: me [Variant "Teams"]1. h2-h3 .. b10-d10 .. g13-g12 .. m8-l82. Nj1-i3 .. Ba9-c11 .. Qh14-f12 .. Nn5-l63. e2-e3 .. Na10-c9 .. Qf12-g11 .. Qn8-m84. Ne1-f3 .. Nc9-e10 .. Qg11-g4 .. Qm8xh13+5. Bi1xb8 .. Ne10-f12+ .. # The first non-standard move. First I thought that it is an @aanuj96's gambit. With this idea: Yellow queen eats the pawn and then we attack yellow queen to win a tempo. But when yellow queen targeted blue pawn and was ready for a light breakfast ... @aanuj96 protected the pawn. So, it is not a gambit. Now the pawn is protected, but bishop's position is strange. The 3rd move of this opening. Blue pony jumps to c9. Yellow and read were relaxed. Yellow queen attacked blue bishop (so the bishop was a bait for the queen actually, that is why it was placed to that square), red developed his pony. So, the blue pony made a multi-purpose move: 1. Protects blue bishop. 2. Attacks yellow queen. 3. Can check yellow king next move. Yellow queen runs away. Green queen checks yellow king: Red can not help yellow at this moment. He attacks blue queen, but ... the blue pony checkmates yellow king. 4 Player Chess is not a game where you can play relaxed.

i have found that some songs can be helpful such as this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07spb387Opc