4 player tactics

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If your game has only 2 players left and you have 16 or more points, resign.

Correct, Friedmelon. I believe that should be considered courteous gamesmanship in 4 Player Chess.

Yes, I like to call it a tactical retreat. It'll force players not to be conservative during their games

just to be clear don't you mean 16 or LESS points? if you have a lot of points and your one of 2 players left why would you resign?

also since this is tactic's I'm not that good but seems to me that trading queen early on puts you at a large disadvantage against the two players that did not loose there queens. same with big pieces early on? 

Thoughts??

me too.

16 or MORE points

Sorry to be a pest as I clearly do not understand your statement. 

Here is how I understand the game to be won: *To win the game you have to end up with the most points*

Here is what I understand your statement says: 

If you are 1 of the 2 people left in the game and you have the most points currently then you should resign and let the 2nd place person win.

*to me that is what "MORE" points means??

Say player A has 30 points and player B has 14 points ater the third player has been eliminated. Player A is ahead enough on points that he can resign and the final score will become A: 30 and B: 29. Player A wins.

ah ok I was missing the part where you could resign and still win THANKS

Take out kings of resigned opponents (something I did in this game) and promote pawns early (something my opponents did)

not sure if its worth adding to the list but on the Resign when there are two players left and 1 is 16+ points ahead... I just was in that spot 2 players down with about 25 points gap. He did not know he could resign and win (or choose not to for my benefit) End result I won. Had to take a queen and a few other pieces before I closed the gap but still  could and did. In this game I had 2 queens to his normal set up. So as the powers to be consider things might want to not let game end until there's not enough pieces on board for the outcome to change. Or when someone resigns it auto minus the pieces left from there score? or just leave it as is since its a small thing and there's bigger fish to fry

If someone is in check, then capture his pieces as fast as possible. (You can just capture 1 piece)

If you are one of the last 2 players and up 7 points, then capture the queen to be up 16 points and resign before your opponent recaptures your queen.

I just did what I wrote above. I was ahead by 9 points, captured my opponents queen and resigned before he had time to capture my queen. Felt a bit cheap considering I was down in material and he was about to get a new queen. I think when a player resigns the other players should not know and play like normal and the resignation happens directly when it becomes that players turn. So in the case I did my opponent would be able to capture my queen before I resign.

Martin,

I like the idea of a resignation becoming effective on that players next turn. Solves some other issues as well. Only thing I would wonder is since that player would not make an actual move(when they hit the resign button) how hard is that to code etc.?

This is a very clever use of the current game mechanics, but I think it should be patched as it is not a fair way of playing the game. An example would be that a resignation wouldn't officially fall into place until the end of a round (right before one own's turn), to give everyone a chance to reply to one's last move.

That would be good. As in regular chess, resignation should not be a way to win. Or in any game, really.

I don't agree with you. Resignation should be a way to win in 4 player chess. As ignoble stated, it is a way to be curtious and end a game as soon as possible. However, I don't think that it should be possible to resign in midst an exchange of pieces, because that is not a fair usage of the strategy.