Four-Player Chess

A game for 4 players based on the ancient board game of Chess.

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Components

16 pieces per side, including:

• 1 King
• 1 Queen
• 2 Rooks
• 2 Bishops
• 2 Knights
• 8 Pawns

Also, an 8x8 board of alternating black and white squares - with 4 "Wings", one on each side, with an additional 3 rows of 8 alternating squares. The pieces start on the outer 2 of these rows.

In this format

RainbowDeck card mapping

There are enough cards in a an RD dice suit to make one side's worth of Chess pieces.

Playing Red (Hearts = red/pink) against Black (Spades = black/gray) against Blue (Diamonds = blue/cyan) against Yellow (Stars = dark yellow/pale yellow) is suggested, although any 4 suits would do. Crowns is not suggested, as the iconography may be confusing for this game.

• King = K
• Queen = Q
• Rook = J x 2
• Bishop = 8 x 2 (8 looks both like a letter B and also like the piece)
• Knight = 7 x 2 (7 looks like the piece, and is less than 8)
• pawns = low cards (0-3) x 2

80 other cards from the deck can be chosen at random to be laid face-down to make the dark squares of the 4-player chessboard.

See Also

• Karten Schach
• Tile Chess
• Chess