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In Austin, our club has been playing a Dessau variant for about a decade. While there are many variants of four handed chess, here are the rules that we've been playing with:• queens start on white• checkmate happens immediately, but can be broken by the partner or released. ° While in checkmate, pieces are invulnerable and their turn is skipped ° If checkmate is broken, invulnerability lasts until they've moved• technical mate occurs when the king could otherwise be legally taken• promotions happen on an opponents back rank ° same pawn movement, so this requires 3 captures. En passant still valid• You must checkmate both opponents This results in a fast paced, nuanced game. I would especially like to advocate for the chess.com checkmate mechanics being implemented this way, as the depths it adds to the game is great. You can have poisoned mates, for example.

Yesterday and today it took very long to start a Teams game. I looked at the Top Games list a moment ago now and there are only 7 Teams games (28 players), other players play FFA (26 games, 104 players). There are 1100+ games in the Top Games list now, so you can not say "there are lots of players, just their games are not in the Top Game list". What happened? Is FFA more interesting? Are you frustrated with random teammates? Do you always lose your Teams games in 5-7 moves and do not believe you can play better? Other reasons? P.S. The server says: 267 Online. But only 132 are playing. What do the others (135) do? Peeking through a keyhole? They are definitely not waiting for a game in a long queue, because the server shows 1-2 empty arrows during the matchmaking process.

I start playing the game. Immediately red and yellow cooperatively attack blue. I try to make diversions, but cannot really help him.I keep whole 1 minute till the end, but... now experience disconnects after EACH move and ultimately lose. I have a stable internet channel, it cannot be on my side. I suppose that someone hacked 4-player chess to cause interruptions.

Help the person opposite. If you do not help the person opposite and he goes down you are left piggy in the middle and be ganged up on. See who he attacking and join in, if he being attacked stall the attacker, and just hope opposite player is sensible enough to know the above rule.

After the yesterday's update the chess board became huge and when I make a browser windows smaller the board stays huge and does not fit the window. It is not possible to play with a big monitor now. I tested in 2 browsers.

I was playing a game where I ran out of time and I was still second place. first place was far in front of me, and third place was just 8 points behind me. 3rd and I were both lost, no material, but first place still had a lot. The third place begged for some points so he could beat me and first place gave a whole queen! Then I ended up losing rating points when I should have earned them.

I'm Fine - allllly a fif teen six ty three! Well, I had this song stuck in my head for hours then I got my rating to 1563 and it rhymes, so here is a new song verse XD Thank you to all the opponent's I've fought to get here, and your loss of points is appreciated jk, Thank you for being good players and challenging me in a new kind of way,

This is freaking me out, once I get disconnected for no reason at move 1st and those bugs in-game, which kinda wastes time. Please repair that. By the way there is a bugged game with Angel-Girl, and no one aborted it just yet.

Just played in a top Teams game (top 1 + top 4 team vs top 6 and me). After the game both sides discussed it, but @terjanq could not rewind the moves, so I decided to publish a PGN4 here. Now everyone can analyze and discuss. Red: terjanq (2031) Blue: BabYagun (1625) Yellow: kopytek123 (1900) Green: The-Lone-Wolf (1754) [Variant "teams"][Comments ""] 1. h2-h3 .. b7-c7 .. g13-g12 .. m8-l82. Qg1-j4 .. Qa7-b7 .. Qh14-e11 .. Qn8-m83. Bi1-h2 .. Na10-c9 .. Bf14-g13 .. m4-k44. Qj4-j9 .. Qb7-c6 .. d13-d11 .. Nn10-l95. Nj1-k3 .. Ka8-a7 .. Kg14-h14 .. Nl9-k76. Qj9-h7 .. Ba6-b7 .. h13-h11 .. m9-l97. Kh1-g1 .. b4-d4 .. Bi14-h13 .. m10-k108. e2-e3 .. Na5-c4 .. k13-k12 .. Qm8-k69. Bf1-e2 .. d4-e4 .. Bh13xk10 .. l9xBk1010. Be2xRn11 .. Qc6-f6 .. Qe11-e9 .. Nk7-j911. Bn11-l9 .. Qf6xj2 .. Qe9xNj9 .. Kn7-n812. Bl9-j7 .. Qj2xRk1 .. Qj9-j12 .. Kn8-m813. Nk3-j1 .. Qk1xNj1 .. Qj12-d6 .. Qk6-k5 http://www.smartbridge6.nine.ch/.4pcp/?pgn=LZExj4MwDIX3_Iqou1ENFMjKjUhI3HBLdUMO0qYJcNK1Az__XpxujmN_fn6-ftm_h91f-vRydnuevtX143fb3P566hNeigvtS_KVLgr909LcpuDOFd25TOHW0dqpstDTnSnUKTXZln6kbvJck2OWeO9o61RV6P7B5KV5tHym2aSwv6EUXGHWFGtVoyfUFOR7SrObFC2YvWTkuKN9NeqCMDBFaR5sR1amD3cgoUBKV0OxVU1iGvLy39vmrdOD6TNzM4nYotsz9MjaNS0CgfAEzBoxOvJZdYV2Jbkqr3OhWSojgDEbNMGh2CgjK5KT3AJXMhG0A5gUr-boE5HPyLvy-Nzfxs0N3WT1CVaSEz_G2MIZxThPjzpoloJbc4Q81ZljzNYNe0t7pxg36uFCyJcJGBAzH4aErHXIN-IqDaiQlf_IQL1LuaQla4kNxcs_:52

This suggestion aims to keep the game competitive at its last stage, when only 2 players are still in the game, and one of them outscores the other one by more than 20 points. Currently the leader has no incentive to prolong the fight, since he has secured the victory. The temptation to press the "Claim victory" button is very strong, and is not unheard for his opponent actually asking him to do so in the chat! This not only makes for an anticlimactic finish, but it's also unfair for the players who didn't make it to the final-round, but managed to gather a fair amount of points before being eliminated. The current system essentially offers an undeserved +20 bonus to the finalist of the game, for no particular reason. So I suggest to give an incentive to the leader to continue fighting. If he manages to checkmate his last opponent, or force him to resign, his rating gains will be boosted by +25%. His extra rating points will be deducted from his opponents ratings (in other words their rating losses will be increased). This means that the stakes are now higher for his last competitor. If he manages to checkmate the leader (or force him to claim victory) will probably finish in the honorable second place. Otherwise he may finish 3rd, suffering extra rating losses on top of that!What do you think? Opinions are welcome!

All the 2k players could probably only keep 1700 - 1800 rating right now. At the best some of the top players like wracku could keep 1900. There's no competition right now. Either that or adjust the leader board so that only recent players are shown.

I know, that it happened already, but could not find that forum topic, so create a new one. alyeasin93 in 2 teams: In the next game you can see that alyeasin93 lost 33 rating points (and I lost 27):

We are all aware of several philosophies of what's right at the end of the game. A honorable samurai style, rewarding your opposite ally to be a second, or a fuck-you style for the player you hate. You have a choice to reward and punish. While not have server auto-claim win whenever it's possible? No more accusations for teamming or hate...

As long as there are 4 players on the board, better help your frienemy (opposite player) to win and finish 2nd then him being killed and you will be the next to be attacked. Don't start too aggressive cause you will be vulnerable, nor too passive cause your frienemy will be. Queening fast is not necessarily good for you, well protecting your king is. Your worst enemy is the one closer to your king. Don't exchange unless its very good for you and don't let others to have the option to exchange with you.

(Noticed this message of @rezacz in the Notes: "chat is dead, no good way to find a partner" And it reminded me what I wanted to propose long time ago: ) At this page: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess we need a Chat window near the Game List. In this case anyone can easily find a teammate there. (Just write "Who wants to play with me? Invite me now. I am 1600." and get an invitation.) Would be good to see a list of players in the chat too. Or get it by a command like: /list Now a dream: Get a list of players rated 1600+ by this command: /list 1600+

In August, September and October we used to see @battleMind24 and @ignoble here. They answered our questions, collected our suggestions, @battleMind24 fixed the bugs and added the new features (with some new bugs, of course ). But in the middle of November something changed. We still write our suggestions and report bugs. But there is almost no reaction from chess.com team. Well, @ignoble created 1 forum topic, but then disappeared again and did not answer anything here: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/is-there-a-roadmap The CHANGELOG was not updated for 2 weeks. Is there a team working on 4 Player Chess or a single person? If it is a single person then I can understand that he does not have time for both: the forum and the development. But if it is not a single person than ... what changed? Players started to buy Gold membership to be able to invite teammates. I expected chess.com team to pay at least the same attention to 4 Player Chess as earlier (like in August, September and October). Thank you.

People here complains a lot about "not cooperating 'friend' (opposite player) in FFA" and "passive (stupid) random teammate in Teams Mode". A question arises: How long can a player withstand alone versus 2 enemies? It is obvious that 2 players teamed up against a 3rd player will mate him sooner or later (or capture his king). But how many moves do they need? Task 1. Teams Mode. Red and Yellow attack Blue together and ignore Green (even if they can checkmate Green in 1 move). Green makes only passive moves (moving his knight Nn5-l6 and then back Nl6-n5). How many moves can Blue withstand? Task 2. FFA Mode. Red and Yellow attack Blue together and ignore Green (even if they can checkmate Green in 1 move). Green makes only passive moves (moving his knight Nn5-l6 and then back Nl6-n5). How many moves can Blue withstand? The Task 1 is obviously more simple, because we do not consider points. 4 Player Chess Board (with PGN4 load/save): http://www.smartbridge6.nine.ch/.4pcp/4pc.html

Hi Guys Today I won a game but I lost 19 points. that make no sense. it is true that all the other oponents had way lower rating than me , but i did not chose to play with them. there should be a rule that when you arrive first you cannot lose points. in my opinion, even when you arrive 2nd you should not lose points. there were times i lost 30-40 point arriving second ...

Sometimes the chat makes my day!

1.look this 2 look this 3 and 4. Stupid moves for the FFA. It is fake persons. Go away from TOP. I am strong man. And so fast get mate... By fake team. Admin! Kick this persons away from TOP.