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Tandem Chess. 4 player variant where pieces taken from your opponent are given to your partner. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Spargelstecher wrote on Mon, Aug 28, 2006 01:45 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

There are many regional rules in this game. In our part of Germany and in Poland there is an interesting rule considering pawn promotion (called 'Grabschen', roughly translated taking away: If a pawn reaches the last line, the enemy team gets it, but the player owning the pawn promotes it by taking a figure of the partners enemy board. This leads to many tactical possibilties, like taking an checkmating figure (or the one that covers it) away. Besides that, we play our 'Tandem' without checkmating by dropping a figure, but with checking, and the first win ends the round.

Georg v. Zimmermann wrote on Sat, Nov 11, 2006 04:40 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

The Bughouse Book (www.bughouse-book.com) can be preordered untill December 8th 2006. On that page you can also download a 40+ pages preview of the book.

Georg v. Zimmermann wrote on Wed, Dec 27, 2006 03:23 PM UTC:Average ★★★

The 'Bughouse Chess' book is now in print and copies can be ordered via amazon.de and bookstores. For more details see http://www.bughouse-book.com !

This site unfortunately is getting out of date, it for example still links to my old d2d4.de page which doesn't exist anymore for years now. I have mailed months ago about this.

Aramen & SKAcz wrote on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 11:03 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Dont miss BICS where You can play bughouse chess and crazyhouse also as fiser random. See free Bughouse chess internet server project

Andreas Kaufmann wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 08:23 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Any volunteers to create Game Courier preset for 2-player bughouse, like described in 'Bughouse per e-mail' section? Looks like a fun game!

Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Sep 20, 2016 11:35 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Bughouse is an excellent 4 player variant that can be played with a different number of players, or (as a Bughouse variant) even a greater number of boards & sets than just two, if desired. Fwiw, I've seen on internet chat sites talk that Bughouse is hard for engines, as there are two boards & sets + drops, multiplying the possibilites compared to standard chess. If ever one of the two boards has a player sitting (refusing to move), however, the computer may then have an advantage if playing against a human on the remaining board (provided that person doesn't already have a big advantage).

From the wiki entry on Bughouse: "A valuation system, first suggested by FICS-player Gnejs, often applied to bughouse is pawn=1, bishop=knight=rook=2 and queen=4."

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