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Hi all. I have really enjoyed helping out running this club and playing chess varients. However I have come to the decision to close this account  because this website has been putting too much strain on my mental health. If you would like to play chess or other games, my discord account is DansXSkills2200. My lichess account is same as this one, Danny-8-4-2.

Is this allowed, or should it be allowed?https://www.chess.com/variants/chaturaji/game/83370040/14/2 Yellow sacced a bishop on move 3 to allow red to capture it and forcibly mate me. Of course giving red a 5 point bishop + 3 points for my king, while losing your own bishop is terrible for yellow. Sure enough, yellow came third.  Yellow simply targeted me due to my rating, costing me 40 rating points, even at the cost of throwing the game for himself. Should that be allowed? 

If you have the patience to dig, feel free to share your first ever chaturaji game here! Here is mine: https://www.chess.com/variants/chaturaji/game/70012941/34/1

Uh hi I've been in this club for a short time what do we talk about and do here?

This forum is about the club's history. This first part is about it members: Ant (@coro) created the club on September 16th, 2024. He owned it well until it fell into disrepair not long after its creation due to the inactivity of its members. He tried to fix this by passing off ownership to one of the Super Admins, who became the next owner. Jack (@John_15-13) was the second owner. He was promoted October 6th, 2024. It was under Jack that a member named Allowed rose to Super Admin status and became one of the most influential and hardworking members that the club has ever seen. On November 11th, 2024, Jack stepped down and promoted Allowed to owner. Allowed (@is-this-allowed) was the third owner. Under his guidance the club experienced massive growth and a surge of activity. On March 10th he closed his account (right after sending 30 invites--he was always a relentless recruiter) and passed leadership of the club to Bird-Seed, his co-owner. Dan (Danny-8-4-2) even though he wasnt an owner he was always active  since the beginning of the club often closing one account and switching to another. Under allowed's and birds owner ship he climb up the ranking ladder by making forums, puzzles, and being active. He soon became one of the best SA and was always willing to help new members and was always very kind. This Second part is about the rest of the clubs history summarized on yt Prt 1 https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/youtube-channel Prt 2 https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/chaturaji-club-history-part-2-2 Prt 3 https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/chaturaji-club-history-part-3 Prt 4 https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/chaturaji-club-history-part-4-final Thank you for reading

Hi all, by now some of you guys have figured out that the game chat on cc is free for all and anything can be said out loud. To say there are just insults is a understatement, it's more emotional blackmail, arrogance, the disrespect of new players, childish abuse and talking about teaming in chat. So after all that you think you can report them, we'll Ive only seen "teaming in chat" getting mutes; evening else you can do f all about it. Please feel free to share your experiences.

Post chaturaji puzzles here! Weekly Puzzle Series: #1

Honestly, these are too easy to make

Hi guys! 😀 If you are a chaturaji bullet player and have a opening preference, please share your thoughts here.

We Are Making a Chaturaji League! Schedule:  2 Games Per Week Game #1 Sunday 7pm EST Game #2 Tuesday 7pm EST We Need at least 8 people to start. __________________________________________________________________________________ Playoffs: The top half will play in the playoffs: Every game the top 2 players move on except in the finals, where there will be 1 final game to decide the champion. League Starts on Aug 23 Write below if you want to play. All the Best, AharonP

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For a limited time from Aug 22 - December 12 2025 you can now get a free chess edit to be posted on the official Chaturaji Chess Team Youtube Channel. - To sign up for an edit please comment down below with links to either a standard game with a brilliant move, or a game of any variant where you got a clean move combination or comeback. If you want you can include a specific song request as well. - Warning: By signing up for an edit you consent to your username and profile being in a public youtube video. - Example edit:  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/75Dm0TO4FR0* *The example edit is obv very short and minimal, you can put whatever you want in your edit. - Que: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. - Active editors: @coro

i have been online for 4 weeks yet i still have not found somebody active in this chat. the most active chat gets is when im not online, just saying.

If you see your in danger king ,and you have a really high number and you can eat something valuable like 3 or 5 points ,you can eat it,l do it every time and I still win, you can try it,but don’t blame me if you lose your rating 🤔

(Forum for 2200+ raji ratings) In chaturaji games sometimes players will sacrifice their pawns or peices in-order increase their chances of winning. Sometimes they even combine this with softteaming from other players to have effects on the game. As with normal chess the moves after a sacrifice must be calculated well in advance. But there is a second element with 4pc, the use of emotional intelligence to understand how other players will react. A warning for this tatic: Sacrifices in chaturaji have a greater impact than any other tatic in the game so if someone does a bad sacrifice it can ruin the game for everyone. This tatic is best avoided unless you can use calculation and emotional intelligence to do it effectively. There are various types of sacs: Single pawun sacs: This is where a player will push a pawn as bait for another player to capture. This can sometimes can be combined with softteaming to collapse the position of the players to your right or above. However bear in mind you are now a pawn down, 5 points less for the endgame, so there is a tradeoff Knights sacs These are the most common sac and also the most deadly. Knights move in unpredictable ways and is the best peice to take advantage of a check. Lets say red is in check by blue. Yellow and green can now bring their knight in to attack and red cant do anything about it. Even if they foolishly take the knight and lose, there is enough compensation for that players knight. There is also one more plan with the knight is to sac for two pawns. Is that bad? Not at all because that player loses 10 points worth of material in the endgame if those pawns were to promote. Bishop sacs Rare. Sometimes you see a knight on a outpost and trade with it, inorder to damange a player pawn structure. Sometimes you can sac a bishop to mate players but this scewed your own chances since you can't get those points back in compensation. The best chance is to keep a open diagonal and if someone is in check, you can attack. But be aware that player might take the bishop! Rook sac Rare, usually in desperate situations when you are down points, a rook to bishop exchange sac is worth it. Rooks should not be used with softeaming tatics, since most players will take that rook and sac their own king or peice, effectively scewing your own winning chances. King sac The most fun tatic in chaturaji! Since the king has to be taken you can effectively eat anything with the king if you have enough points! The king is worth 3 so if you are 4 points ahead a king sac is possible if there are two players in the game. With three it is more complicated. One player must be 4 points down, so when you sac to the other, they have enough points to autoclave. Also the player who is down must not be able to sac a peice, if they do they can get their points to match yours or higher, effectively making the king sac useless. With 4 players king sacs you would need at least 30 points to take the win, so these occur usually to gain second or third. Sometimes it is better to wait until the player count reduces to 3. Please feel free to discuss sac tactics in the comments.

Note to all experienced players, please do not give away the answer. Yellow has made a blunder How can red take advantage?

有国际友人能与我一起练棋吗？

Every week i will give a position to disscus. Then, before the begining of the new week,(e.g if the position was posted monday, then sunday is before the new week begins) we will play that positon out.