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Four Handed Chess II. More variants of four handed chess on plus-shaped boards. (Cells: 160) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 09:48 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★This is a really good and challenging game although have you thought of using unequal armies? Maybe you could use speacil rules so that you could defeat the enemy in a number of different ways, although you should make it too complicated.
Steve wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 03:41 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★This is cool to see the history of 4-way chess. We are currently playing a variation of Verney's Game in Wisconsin, partners sit accross from each other and all the queens start on white. In the Midwestern variation all the rules of regular chess apply. To play by e-mail or for more info write to: taurusgames@charter.net
Steve wrote on Sun, Apr 25, 2004 08:38 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Play Verney's four-Handed chess Vs. computer at
http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Verney4.htm
When I was growing up in Iowa in the '60s we chess nerds played four handed. We cut apart two boards and stuck them to a third. I don't recall the rules or their source. We would listen to classical music and take breaks to play with our 'motorific' car races. Great fun before sex drugs and rock an' roll.
I'm not clear on something here. I understand that pawns can only be promoted upon reaching the oposing player's back row. But I'm not clear on how that is supposed to occur apart from the pawn managing to capture enough of the oposing player's pieces so as to move diagonally in the number of squares required to arrive at the oposing player's back row? Is that the only way to get a pawn to a point where it can be promoted?
yes, it seems that is the only way to promote a pawn, how bizzare, i can't imagine a pawn promoting in this game, ever! i don't know why it can't promote when it reaches the opposite end of board, look how far it is away, lol, surely the little pawn deserves to be promoted he he. it seems that when it reaches the end, it turns around and goes back lol, why would you bother?! maybe sometimes, this would happen, i dunno, someone who has played this game maybe could enlighten us more on how often this would happen
Question: how do you indicate that your Pawn is now moving backwards across the board? This simple rule change will solve that problem: When your Pawn reaches the last rank of your partner's row (or one of the other four fields where the edge of the board obstructs its move), then it is replaced by one of your partner's Pawns.
lol, never thought of that, they must of had some method, cause they played it at a club for 50 yrs. maybe there was a lot of arguements ... 'hey yu can't move that pawn there, that is illegal' .. 'no it's not, it's going that way' .. 'no it isn't!' .. 'yes it is, i got it to the end and it's now going back' .. 'no you didn't you cheat' ha ha :)
I have played over a thousand games of 4-way chess (very similar to four handed chess) and the pawns never make it all the way accross the board, players always get check-mated before that. Only a few times has it gotten to an endgame where players are trying to promote pawns. We play that pawns are promoted if they get all the way accross the board, but it doesn't matter much cause it hardly never happens. Only twice have I seen anyone promote to their opponent's first rank, and indeed it can only be done by capturing, lol.
See the modern version of 4-Way Chess at:
4-Way Chess Web-site
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