Quatrochess

Quatrochess gameboard and starting position. In the diagram, standard pieces have their usual representations, as well as fairy pieces chancellor and archbishop. A mann is represented by an inverted king, wazir by inverted rook, ferz by inverted bishop, camel by horizontal knight, and giraffe by inverted knight.

Quatrochess is a chess variant for four players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986.[1][2] It is played on a square 14×14 board that excludes the four central squares. Each player controls a standard set of sixteen chess pieces, and additionally nine fairy pieces. The game can be played in partnership (two opposing teams of two) or all-versus-all.

Quatrochess was included in World Game Review No. 10 edited by Michael Keller.[3]

  1. ^ Pritchard (1994), pp. 244–45
  2. ^ Pritchard (2007), p. 316
  3. ^ Keller, Michael, ed. (June 1991). "A Panorama of Chess Variants". World Game Review. No. 10. Michael Keller. ISSN 1041-0546.