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- Players go after hanging pieces, so your best bet is to not leave your valuable pieces exposed, and to try to move your pieces as little as possible so that you can spend more time making sure you aren't leaving something hanging.
- It's actually kind of similar to dice wars in that the best strategy I found in dice wars was to start out with a very small but very strongly-defended territory, and then only to expand in such a way that none of the other players will want to attack you. And in this game you want to do the same thing: keep your position totally locked down and undesirable to attack.
- I won my first game by moving each pawn forward one square at a time in the middle and queenside, castling kingside, and then just getting that line of pawns up the queenside. None IIRC I moved my queenside knight to the kingside to protect the pawn in front of where the rook starts. None of the other players wanted to
Videos
- 2017.10.07 - YouTube - Chess.com - GM Jon Ludvig Hammer Tries Four Player ChessThis was pretty entertaining to watchto attack any of my pieces because they were all defended. I was able to queen two pawns, and as soon as I queened each one I would retreat it back into my "base". I refrained from attacking other players because I didn't want them to be thinking about me.
- Keep an eye on your clock, because it's surprisingly easy to not notice that it switched to your turn.
Videos
- 2017.10.07 - YouTube - Chess.com - GM Jon Ludvig Hammer Tries Four Player Chess
- This was pretty entertaining to watch.
- When he won, he'd been in "last" the entire game and then dominated once it was down to two people.
- He lost once on time, because he didn't notice it was his turn.
- He lost another game where he got into a three-way equal-footing battle with the other two last remaining players, and he left his king exposed on his first rank, and one of the players sent a rook down and checked the king, and then another of the players took his exposed queen.
Misc
- Chess Jam
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