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Why did the chicken play 4pc?

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/29381487/167/1

Hey! I was playing in the test server with bots (because i dœsn't whant to wait 1 hour). At the 6th move, at 19h 03 and 26 seconds Futer2 wrote a Latin message in the chat‼ He wrote: "Eveniet adipisci atque. Doloribus porro esse sunt. Ut totam dolor aut velit. Quasi ea ex ratione laudantium veniam et." Google trad give me that: It will happen to get and They are still in pain. So that the whole painor want. It is as if they come from the reason of the praisers After, 31 moves later and 6 minuts 13 secons later an other bot written something. It was also in latin "Fugit iste id soluta facilis." "he escaped easily" Strange, not?

I told you guys, I am learning as I go.

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/29285600

https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/29068663/337/3

I did a challenge for everyone. Here is a final position of a game, and you should find 7 errors, 7 illogical and strange things, 7 things not normal, 7 anomalys. The first is very easy to find and give and example to what you are searching. Will you find them all? You can zoom to make it more clear. Carrfull : there can have traps, you should make the difference with absurd and unusual between impossible and abnormal. The errors can be anywhere 0 = 😡😡😡 🤐 1 = 🤔 2-3 = 😌 4 = 😎 5-6 = 😀 7 = 😇 No posting solutions bellow, i will post the solutions few days later.

This is a poll for Hyperbullet/Bullet/Blitz players.First off, let me rephrase: I am putting Hyperbullet, no increment Bullet, and no increment Blitz (e.g 30 sec, 1 min, 4 min) under the umbrella of Fast Moves. This is because they require premoving, at least in the endgame. I am putting increment Bullet, and increment Blitz (e.g 1|2, 3|2) under Fast Thinking. This means that while harder to flag because of the increment, you are forced to play more hurried and potentially irrational moves because of time trouble. So, which set of time controls do you prefer playing? React with for Fast Moving React with for Fast Thinking And please don’t clutter the comments section with complaints about server issues, this poll can apply to Standard 2 Player Chess as well

PGN4 (for you to try it yourself):[Variant "Teams"][RuleVariants "EnPassant"][StartFen4 "Y-0,0,0,0-1,0,1,1-1,0,1,1-0,0,0,0-1-3,yR,1,yB,yK,1,yB,1,yR,3/3,yP,yP,yP,yP,1,yP,yP,yP,3/7,yQ,yN,5/bR,bP,4,yN,yP,4,gP,gR/bN,bP,10,gP,gN/bB,2,bP,8,gP,1/1,bP,9,gP,gB,1/bK,bQ,1,bP,8,gP,gK/bB,bP,6,rQ,3,gP,gB/1,bP,10,gP,gN/bR,1,bP,bN,rP,5,rP,1,gP,gR/7,rP,6/3,rP,rB,gQ,rP,1,rP,rP,4/3,rR,rN,2,rK,rB,rN,rR,3"][CurrentMove "0"] Try to find the best continuation for red and yellow (the others are losing). Good luck! —Created By @APhoenixOnFire and @GTSWPM150

Following my same line of thought for when I'm cornered, or at least feel like it, I did what I always do : Higher authority. So I went over the heads of the admins, and the person I spoke with both gave me their assurance that it was ok, and even a couple rules clarifications, for which I thanked him/her , ( I'm not saying which ) And I will be incorporating them into my 4PC strategy as fast as I can figure out how to use them. I will no longer be fighting the people who play opposites.

Two Kings options 1: checkmate or take both kings option 2 checkmate or take one king

Neo, Standard, Classic, Alpha, Custom Left to right Me: ClassicNew Amazon design! Please react if you use neo React if you use standard React if you use classic React if you use alpha React if you use custom

With the latest updates to the game and its ever-changing aspects, many people are still confused about why they won or lost a game. So here are a few "unknown" rules that will hopefully help you in your future games. 1. King Captures In the following position... ...red can move his king out of the way of yellow's queen to deliver a discovered check to green's king. Once red moves, yellow gains the ability to capture green's king, since yellow moves before green. This sounds confusing, as usually, the game ends in checkmate, but in some cases, one player will have the opportunity to capture the enemy's king. I'm talking about teams here, not FFA, for which the rules still apply but are a little easier to understand. In teams, even if your king is under attack, like seen below... you can capture an enemy player's king: 2. How Points are Split Zombies Kings (and royal pieces in general)Whenever there are zombie kings on the board, you can still receive points for checkmating them. This is the reason why you can't "claim the win" in such situations, even when it looks like you can. For example, in this position,red can claim the win, since he has 20 more points than yellow. However, in the situation below,red can't claim the win, since yellow could theoretically checkmate green and gain 20 points for it. However, if red had 41 points instead of 21, they could claim the win since they'd have 20 more points than yellow even if yellow checkmated green. Stalemates, Insufficient Material, Threefold-repetition, and the 50-move-ruleIn a situation where a player is stalemated, the division of points depends on whether or not that player was in the game when they were stalemated. If the player was playing when they got stalemated, they would receive the same number of points as they would receive if they checkmated someone (i.e., 20 points in most games). If they were not playing, however, because they resigned or timed out, they would not receive any points, but rather, the other players would split the points evenly.When it comes to insufficient material, there is only one valid case, and that is when there are only two players remaining, no zombie kings, and neither player has sufficient checkmating material, in which case both players receive half of the points for checkmate (i.e. 10 points in most games). In other cases, rules for claiming the win still apply. There is also the case where one player has enough checkmating material and the other doesn't. If the player with sufficient material has at least 1 more point than the player with insufficient material, the former can claim the win. However, if the player with insufficient material wants to claim the win, they need to have at least 21 more points than the player with sufficient material. Autoclaim and AutoresignAutoclaim only occurs in games where the 2nd place finisher gains rating (FFA). Autoresign only occurs in games where 2nd loses along with 3rd and 4th (Solo). Autoclaim is when the game forces the 1st place finisher to claim the win in order to protect the 2nd place finisher. Autoresign is when the game forces one player to resign because there is no way they could possibly win (in the 2 player stage), even if they captured all of the opponent's pieces AND checkmated them (i.e., they'd still end up 1 point short). There are also certain situations which combine two or more of the situations I listed above, such as insufficient material and zombie kings. Those are a bit more complicated, so I won't post them for the time being, but you can always experiment with the analysis board if you'd like. Hope this helps!

4PC in the " takeover " mode. Talk about fun Oh , yeah !!! If this is already available, how do you access it ?

HOWWWW???

I would seriously like to see " The remaining players split the points " for rated games. Right now it's only allowed in Casual games. This is a bad thing, and you could still have it with " the stalemated player gets the points " if everyone agrees to it beforehand. It would change the strategy a bit , but it wouldn't come up that often, so let's have a choice, please. Double

Why is there a duck in the walls section on 4pc editor?

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Here it is. The absolute end of the story. Pre arranged teams are illegal. Everyone recognises that fact. Opposites, is pre arranged teams. You go into the game BEFOREHAND knowing you will TEAM with the player opposite you. PRE arranged. The partnership is made BEFORE the game starts. It is PRE arranged. And since Pre arranged TEAMS are ILLEGAL, so are OPPOSITES, because they are PRE ARRANGED !!! Poor admins, looks like they have to DO THEIR JOB now instead of just ignoring everything and saying, " it's just opposites, now go away and leave us alone "