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I already know several of these topics exist. But I recently ran into someone who asked what are the strategies for 4PC. 1. Set up your king to be defended on your weak pawn (m9 green, i2 red, c6 blue, and f13 yellow) Why? Because if you're going up against players who have a better sense of trying to get early mates, or veterans, you're more than likely going to at least get mated early once. 2. Attempt at least one promotion It's never bad to have an extra queen for another piece for additional ways to attack someone, it's great for getting a point lead and it can provide more safety for your king 3. Checking Checking is huge in 4 player chess, depending on who you're checking. If you're the one being checked, look at all of you're pieces that could possibly be captured and try to find the best move so that you avoid getting the worst possible outcome (checkmate). If you're the one checking someone, try and see if there's pieces you can capture freely on your next turn. 4. Castling It's not necessary to castle from the get-go, but castling early can allow you to start pushing pawns up for promoting or to start attacking other players. And if I missed tips for starting players, let me know. Thank you if you read all of it.

I just wanted so see if Ne10 saves the game for bg (5b.) : Ne10, Bg13, m7xl8 https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/32490629/27/4 I also like how my teammate ignored me and attacked bishop instead of the king. As a famous streamer would say: what's more important than the bishop/knight/rook/queen?

Hello there! I want to make a 4PC puzzle, but the diagram/puzzle/game thing only seems to support normal chess. Any idea?Thanks,Chameleon

The server disconnected during my last game, now when I log in there is no history of the 8000+ games I've played and all of my ratings are missing. Can someone help me get my history/ratings back?

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/35434709/138/1 you put the king in corner and advance pawns while keeping your king safe with same color pawns

I won this about a half hour ago. How do I save it ? https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/37097769 Thanks in advance Double

Isn't it fun when you only grind rapid and then play bullet/blitz? It's funny when high rated players realize a 1600 is not actually 1600 lol

<link removed - admin> I said “support my queen” but my teammate didn’t bother to do anything except pushing his pawn! Does this **** even have a brain?

In an attempt to find the best setup for both FFA and Teams ten setups were analysed, most of them with the help of the top players. The optimal setup was found to be BYG switch, which you can see below: Let me enumerate all the advantages and disadvantages of the setup: + Great Opening Structure variety, surpassing even old standard in terms of this aspect very slightly. All the structures are viable even without transpositions, but I'm convinced that certain transpositions could make certain structures stronger. + Great Flavour variety, the games can range from highly positional and slow-paced ones to the super-complicated and tactical openings, just like in old standard. Any side can avoid too tactical or too positional openings easily. + Great Opening variety, any player can play queen's pawn OR king's pawn via a transposition or, if it is legal, right away on the first move and come out with a decent position, albeit some openings require superb theoretical understanding. Compare to old standard, where every side has both king's and queen's pawn ideas, albeit with many transpositions. + A rather rare scenario that lower-rated players might compare to RY running out of moves while the higher-rated players would call it a long-term advantage, is when RY have to slow down so BG may obtain an advantage that will allow them to equalize. In BYG switch, this advantage still belongs to BG, though it is highly nerfed compared to old standard due to KQ placement and rather exceptional move order specifics (was tested thoroughly), unlike in omatamix setup. It is even possible for BG to overtake RY in rare cases, but RY can convert via the same advantage and vice versa. The arguments to explain this in the setup are omitted for brevity, but for the lower-rated players you may want to take a look at this game to grasp the idea: https://www.chess.com/variants-test/old-standard/game/7303216/0/1. + Equal activity for FFA except yellow, but yellow is much more solid than the other colors and doesn't have to rely so much on red. Overall, this setup features a superb FFA balance. + Great engine evaluation, top three according to the TeamTerminator. = Mild aesthetics, not ugly and is rather fast to adjust to. - Not representative of 2PC, but, hey, 4PC is an entirely different game! Setup Comparison: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fYezLmfXdr5JeuuRsRy0zbV05H4HDeD7EVGMQfJTCfk/edit?usp=sharing Notable testing games: https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/27018916/0/4 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/27040298/78/3 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/27060930/54/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/27044637/36/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/26701657/54/1 https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/26700912/42/2

https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/an-update-regarding-our-server In a nutshell: They have every person that can do something working on the Live Chess server/main site They spent $2M (USD, probably) on improving the server Y'all have probably seen dozens of forums on the Variants server, with many complaining about lag and server crashes. It's getting repetitive at this point and it's becoming clear that even 4PC admins can't really have a say on the server issues either. What's bad isn't necessarily that we're losing out rating points unfairly, what's bad is that it's been ELEVEN months since the merge. In the span of 2 weeks, chess.com spent 2 million dollars on the main server and got everyone on the job; in the span of about 10x that time, chess.com hired, what, 2 new staff members who can code???? Maybe we need to start spamming the inboxes of chess.com staff... customer support told me to "clear my cache"...

I feel like the 4pc server is being really laggy for me and automatically keeps disconnecting me from the games. When I go back into the server to "hopefully" be able to access my 4pc game again everything is just loading. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks! - Squealingnickel

I own all their queens on move 8, a finish of 115 points https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/36398263/174/4

Apologies if answers to these 2 Q.s are posted somewhere/pls forgive me if so: 1. Is the a type of 4 way where the object is to somehow go about capturing the other 3 opponents, not win by generating 'points?' 2. If so .... what would be the s-l-o-w-e-s-t move version of the above, e.g. 3 Day Daily (which may make no sense cause of how long it'd take to complete the Match, given 4 Players : )? Many thanks, Sam

Every time I try to rejoin, it keeps on reloading and won't stop. I can't do anything not even play. It is bugging.

ADMINS! please fix this. Us players are tired of this.

Sorry if this is the wrong way to report, but I looked around and didn't see another option other than the commentless report on their profile (no likely to find 4pc games). Anyway for a 2350+ game, you would not see mistakes like you see here starting at move 36.blue: https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/36067980/119/3

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/35773019/38/2

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/35759602/61/3 At the end, the 2 bishop checkmate is cool