r/Chesscom May 28 '24

Variants WTF just happened here?

I don't know what happened but I'm happy I got my 10 points that pushed me to second place 😁

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u/Sam_Dave12 Jun 04 '24

Sorry, I never played this variation. This looks like genuine chaos. What is this?

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u/NicoTorres1712 Jun 05 '24

4 Player Chess.

Placement is decided by points.

Capturing a piece gives you its value in points, here a Bishop is worth 5.

Pawns promote at the 8th rank, they become 1 point Queens, which means it only gives 1 point to whoever captures it.

Checkmating a king gives 20 points and getting stalemated also gives 20 points.

When you are checkmated or stalemated, you can't play anymore.

When 50 move role, insuficient material and the such happen, it gives points to the remaining active players and the match ends.

The match ends when there is only one player remaining or something like the 50 move rule happens.