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It happens so often, get a player in a tight net mate one move away, or you have a check fork that will take their queen next move and they resign.  If a player is in check and resigns it should at least leave the king stationary or the bot should move out of check and leave the other pieces active for 1 move so the fork pays off.A more extreme penalty, since poor sportsmamship is against fair play rules, but easier to implement, would be score wiped to zero for resigning in check.

If you have ever tried teams you should know that the variant is very different than FFA. Here are some tips on the teams variant. Note that I am also still learning this variant, so my opinion on some things might change over time. 1. Communicate with your partner! Since you are in a team it is really important to play as a team. You can draw arrows by right-clicking and dragging. Clear arrows by left-clicking. Using chat and arrows for communication with your partner will greatly improve your teams overall play. 2. Play actively! It is really important to play actively with your pieces. Not only will this make it easier to create tactics with your partner, but you will also be able to help your partner if he is attacked. 3. Always look for tactics! This is a very tactical variant and you constantly want to create tactics with your partner and avoid tactics from your opponents. Look for forcing moves, which are checks, captures and threats. Be very careful of checks. If you get double checked by 2 queens, then you are quite likely to get mated soon if you are not mated already. Also note that I really mean to always look for tactics. This includes the first moves made in the game (you can blunder on move 1!). 4. Develop your queens early! This might sound a bit controversial. Haven't you been taught not to develop your queen early in classical chess? Well there are a lot of squares on the 4 player chess board and the queens tend to find squares where they can stand safely and aggressively at the same time. There are also usually no easy way for your opponents to harass the queens to get ahead in development and they constantly need to watch out for tactics (especially double checks by both queens tend to be deadly). There might be other good approaches where you don't develop your queens early, but you do not want to end up playing a middlegame with an inactive queen. As a side note it is certainly possible to move your queen too many times in the opening when you do end up behind in development because you were just trying to checkmate early. When it is good/bad to move your queen several times in the opening is a very complicated topic that I will not cover here, but I hope you put your queen on a better square if you move it several times. 5. Don't be afraid to trade! It is important not to misinterpret this advice. You should not be afraid of trading pieces when both teams loses the same amount of material. However, being on the receiving end of a trade where you have to recapture can often be quite risky since it might be possible for the one initiating the trades partner to create a tactic against you when you want to recapture on your next move. So make sure your move is tactically safe before offering a trade. Finally I want to mention that this is a very tactical variant and new players will have a hard time to survive the first 10 moves against experienced players. Don't be ashamed of falling for early checkmates, everyone does that at the start. Also for those wondering how you can blunder on move 1, see this topic: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/share-your-quickest-checkmate-or-your-favourite-one

He blundered his queen and then resigned after posting a bunch of smiley faces. Why you trying to destroy my rating?

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Yup Getting the dreamy Checkmate in 4pc teams. 3 kings and one queen. Do you know any other quests (that you have done in variants) ?

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/88670344 can someone help me? why does red and yellow feel like they're teaming?? like move 45 there are also a lot of other suspicious and weird moves from them do i report them? thank you

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4 Player chess uses the glicko2 rating system. FFA: (0<=X<=1. X gets smaller the higher the average rating of all players) 1st: 3 wins 2nd: X wins 3rd: X losses 4th: 3 losses vs average rating of the game. As a result, rating changes for 2nd an 3rd place are smaller in higher rated games. Solo: 1st: 4 wins 2nd-4th: 1.33 losses Players that are tied for points share the number of wins and losses for the tied positions. Teams: Each team receives a "team rating" first, which is calculated as follows: Higher rated player in team * (2/3) + Lower rated player * (1/3) In other words: A team's rating is weighed 2/3 toward the higher rated player. Each player then gets one win or one loss vs. the opponents "team rating". Rating Deviation aka Glicko RD = "Confidence that the rating is accurate". Players with very few games will have a high deviation and thus their rating changes will be large. Players initially being with a deviation of 120, which will slowly drop to around 65 as more and more games are played. This allows players to reach their "true rating" quickly. Hover over ratings in the player popup to see the deviation (Glicko RD) Ratings with a deviation greater than 100 are marked as provisional by a "?" In other words, the "?" indicates the player has not played many games yet and his rating is likely not very accurate. A player's rating deviation only has an affect on the player's own rating changes, but not on those of his opponents, or his teammate. Old (outdated) rating thread: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/how-the-rating-system-works

Any good reason why closed accounts still listed in 4p FFA rankings? of the top 20 there are 2 closed accounts, a pool of 20 isn't much to go on to spot a trend but it's all I can go on.  10% ?I have a couple of games bookmarked with obvious pre arranged teams that have been confirmed and banned, and they too are still listed as a valid rating in the ~32k active players.  Side question, is there away to see an extended list of rankings?, I'd like to see who my near peers are at my marginally above mediocre level of 2100. 

After about 4 months of being new I hit 2000 ELO, I've yoyo'd for about 8 months, rising to mid 2000 all the way down to low 1900.  The past couple of weeks I found form/[got lucky] I'm now bouncing round low 2100.   I like the dynamic of higher rated games, when across will cooperate somewhat until a flank player is eliminated, north south knows it, so does east west.  But warm up, or if I've taken a bad 4th place, I might grind out a few wins on no restriction games, I play to defend but never trust the 15/16/17 hundred across from me.  If I create a game I set rating at -300 +200, it avoids some of the smurfs, and I think a 1800 stands a slim chance against a 2300.  So I guess my range is -300 [and you might get an across who doesn't know  co-op idea] and +200 which a 2300 might worry me by score alone but you only get better by playing better opponents.  so my question what range do you play? how low is just bullying noobs, how high is too high when you'll be torn to pieces?

hmm hmm  i got no updates on this, so posting this as a reminder if the admins missed it.  Basically WOF are organized with a bug, why go ahead with something this buggy. Next game button not working after the game is finished.  It not only kills the momentum but it also takes more time to join again, that's also one of the reasons there are less games for such a cool concept arena. It'll be more fun and smoother with this fixed. thanks in advance.

I present this game, starts out realistic for 7 moves then myself and right realise we're dealing with a team.I've reported and the archive tells a convincing story, and they're a bad team as well, not banned yet, it's only been a few hours.https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/88236820/28/3  but so so so satisfying without any strategy spoken, 2 fair players decide "we're going to wipe these cheaters out"  

Its chess on a infinite board 

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Yellow To move #87977167 Game for solution,,  Offcourse, they couldnt find the solution, so you won't find replaying the game but it's mentioned in chat, in case if you also miss the win.

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