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I was spectating a game and these people were acting weird. VincentRoberts: hello? VincentRoberts: HI VincentRoberts: HI eleyo: vincent whats your number? VincentRoberts: what do you mean vahagshabani: he wants to take you out on a date dongtae: ye hes gay for you eleyo: gonna call the cops on you Can you help with people who act like this?

It would be a real nice feature to allow opponents to contact after each game, as well a history of the games, if ever someone desires to share how they enjoyed that game instead of not recalling what their username was fully since you only get one lousy minute of optioned time before your history yourself. lol Sometimes I will hit on their avatar to pop another screen but, again, with only 1 measly minute ( massive hint ) it can start chewing the time, especially if you wish each of the 3. Please take into consideration?

I've had two games now where I resigned when there were two players left (for score purposes) and I didn't get a rating increase. Could this be a bug or is there a new rule I don't know of?

1. Bug: Currently if you type some text in chat and use the "left arrow" key (keyboard) to move the cursor back it affects the board rewinding the moves. So, the focus is not in the chat window, but on the board. Please fix it. 2. Suggestion: I recall that in Team Mode you need to type /team before messages. This is very inconvenient. I suggest to make 2 separate chat windows instead. The top one for the team chat and another at the bottom for the general chat.

Has chess.com considered adding 3 player chess? The movement of the pieces is slightly complicated but it isn't too hard to learn. If you checkmate someone you win, the checkmated player loses and the other player gets second. It's really fun.

This game is much fun, but it can easily go sour if you haven't built some defense! Since I began making a strategy, having my Knights out to begin with Queen's Pawn I've won 3 or 4 games!! If you just run up to grab your Queen the experienced opponents are going to chew you down with their Bishops, that happens too often. Get those Knights out, Castle if possible, then move your Queen side Pawns up for promos! ",

Is anyone else having issues with not getting all your points it says you won? Twice now I have been screwed massive points. Yesterday I was at 1226 and supposedly won 117 but next game it said 1261 (1226 + 117 = 1343, cutting me 82 points), and just now supposedly had won 96 points but it only raised 30 points! It's bad enough watching you who just built it up only to lose it all the very few games, but I certainly should be getting what I have won dagnabit! lol Can this be checked, worked on, my points GIVEN TO ME that didn't register? That sucks!

I really like tournaments and 4 player chess too so I think there should be 4 player chess tournaments

The chat is often used for teaming and that makes lots of players mad. Many players use /stop-chat command. Others want to communicate, because (quotation): "it is a part of the game". Ok, I think chess.com developers can replace the chat with a quasi-chat. In a quasi-chat the players can not type their own messages, but can select a pre-written (pre-approved) messages by selecting them from the list. The list should not contain any messages related to teaming, of course. And, based on the games I played, I created almost comprehensive list of phrases for the chat. I based it on frequently used messages (sorted by frequency): 1. Hi. 2. Red/blue/yellow/green you are [language - MOD]! 3. Red/blue/yellow/green you are my little [language - MOD]! 4. Shut up red/blue/yellow/green! 5. LOL 6. [language - MOD] you all! 7. gg This way we will keep the chat in place for those who can not live without it. And at the same time the chat won't be useful for teaming.

It was brought to my attention from a different form, that I and some of the guys were talking about making the game a bit more dynamic possibly. More aggressive so to speak. So we came up with the idea what about up to move 25 or 30 if the king is captured or checkmated it is worth 30 or double the points? Because at the moment the double fianchetto, castle and queen promotion late middle game is dominating the boards at the top levels. Could we possibly try it for a weekend or so and see how it does? What do you guys think about this? We thought the openings would vary a little more possible and make the game more aggressive and dynamic.

The game as it stands now does not encourage early aggression. Exchanging queens early on is a terrible idea, since you get 9 points at the cost of becoming a target for further attacks, since you'll have trouble defending your base. But if you get 2*9 = 18 points instead of 9, then exchanging queens may become viable. So I suggest that the first 4 captures of the game give double the points, to reward the players willing to spill the first blood.

Would be handy if there was a display in the chat showing the number of people watching the game. Since the players can't see spectator chat a lot of times people don't say anything until because there is no way to know if anybody will see what you said.

The best thing 4 player chess has done is made me much more defensive minded. Now finding I am much more aware of opponent plans and ensuring that I cover for them.

In the position below I moved my rook to the D rank, as a result the yellow king was checkmated and the red one checked. So, it was a double check + checkmate at the same time. I believe the server added +20 to the score at that moment. Should it be +25 or +20? P.S. For the testing purpose it would be good to see the current score (not the final one) in the game replay mode. Of course it is not very important, but could help to find more bugs.

TL;DR: When two players resign immediately after each other, leaving one player left, the remaining player doesn't seem to get the +20 point bonus for being the last player standing I neglected to take a screenshot of this, but here's what happened: I was playing Green. Blue (across from me) resigned early with 0 points. Gold (to my right) grabbed Blue's king and ended up with a pretty big lead. I ended up in a vicious battle against Gold, while Red played defensively. Eventually, both Gold and I were pretty depleted in material. Gold was still well ahead of both myself and Red on points, but basically had only king and pawns left, and so resigned, with 53 points total. At this point I had 32 points, while Red had 24. However, I had only a couple minor pieces left, to Red's more or less full army, not to mention that Red was one move away from capturing Gold's king. Given that I would surely lose to Red 1-on-1, and had little hope of capturing >20 points of material to pass Gold's score, I decided to resign immediately after Gold's resignation. To my great surprise, I ended up in second place in the game, with the final scores at Gold: 53, Green (me): 32, Red: 24, Blue: 0. I was very surprised that Red didn't get +20 for being the last player standing. I'm guessing this was because both Gold and I had colored kings on the board? In any case, this was pretty unfair to Red, since s/he should have finished in 2nd place with 44 points for being the last player standing.

I guess on the first game of the day, so maybe the header forced the image to be refreshed? Anyway, someone promoted to a yellow Q, and then I see the highlighted squares so I am in fact able to determine where the move was done. But the square where the promoted Q sits is empty, so it appears as a ghostly spirit or maybe like in Star Trek when you see the teleportation chamber and the yellow Q(1) appears inside! It could be pretty confusing I think I was able to make a move and then the Q appeared afterwards. I wondered if maybe the image was not pre-loaded like the other ones? Also, this is a dumb question, but I have never seen anyone in 4-way chess promote to a knight or bishop or rook. Is it possible? I probably have it set to auto-queen in my settings. Thank you!!

Anyone scored over 100 yet? Screenshot for proof!

I love many aspects of this game that don't exist at all in regular chess: - You cannot leave pieces exposed. If your queen is attacked or someone checks you, you will be attacked by others who take advantage of the fact that you must get out of check or protect your queen. - You can checkmate someone while your piece is protected by another player's piece. For example, I can check your king with my queen if my queen is defended from your king by someone else's piece (I'd be sacrificing my piece to get the mate) - If two or three players are attacking a square, a third player may potentially move his/her piece into that square safely because if one of the other two players were to attack the piece, his/her own piece would be in danger due to the other players attacking the square. What other situations or strategies have you observed which are unique to this game?

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