Grable Reviews Four-Player Chess (Variant #1)
Channel: Graham Goble
Date: 2020-07-19

Something different this time. We're doing a post-game analysis of the variant War for Throne II. Very instructional play for anyone who wants to play these types of variants at the highest levels. Join me at chess.com/4-player-chess .

War For Throne II: Each player starts with 21 pawns which can promote to kings on the 4th rank, and one "Royal" king. For the purposes of king-of-the-hill, and standard chess moves, only the royal king functions the same way a king does in regular chess. All others are essentially pawns that can move in any direction, 1 space. Capturing a pawn counts as 1 point, kings=3 points, and giving checkmate counts as 40 points. If all other players lose on time, or if a royal king makes it to one of the centre 4 squares, all remaining kings are checkmated. Stalemated kings are also awarded their own 40 points.