Four Fronts

Four-player chess variant

Four Fronts
Cuatro Frentes
Designers	Gabriel Baldi Lemonnier
Years active	2012 - present
Genres	Board game, abstract strategy game
Languages	Spanish, english
Players	2, 3 or 4
Setup time	1 minute
Playing time	Casual games usually last 4 to 40 minutes.
Chance	None
Skills	tactics, strategy

Four Fronts (Cuatro Frentes in Spanish) is a board game created by the Uruguayan professor^[ambiguous] Gabriel Baldi Lemonnier.^[1]

History

It was created in 2012 by Lemonnier, who invented and patented it as «Ajedrez Uruguayo» (Uruguayan Chess).^[2]

It is a variant of chess, for two, three or four opponents who play in pairs or individually, although when playing in pairs, partners cannot speak. It involves moving the pieces through the checkered gameboard of black or white, with the intention of capturing. To the standard board of eight by eight frames, four sections were added to the respective formations.^[3]

The pieces are 12 per player: the king, the queen, the bishop, the knight, rook and the pawn, incorporating as a novelty the prince, a piece that combines the movements of the bishop and the rook.^[4] The pieces are colored white, black, yellow and red.

References

^ Luis Roux (20 July 2013). "Se necesitan cuatro para jugar ajedrez" [It takes four to play chess]. El Observador (in Spanish). Uruguay. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
^ "Four fronts: ajedrez a lo grande" [Four fronts: chess at large]. Metro (in Spanish). 25 June 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- "Invento uruguayo: ajedrez para cuatro" [Uruguayan invention: chess for four]. Canal 10 (in Spanish). Uruguay. 15 June 2013. Archived from the original on 20 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
^ "Uruguayo inventa variante de ajedrez para cuatro jugadores" [Uruguayan invents chess variant for four players]. Prensa Latina (in Spanish). 14 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
^ "Uruguayo patentó ajedrez con principes" [Uruguayan patented chess with princes]. El País (in Spanish). Uruguay. 14 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}

This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 7/2013.

External links

Four Fronts at BoardGameGeek

Chess variants (list)

Orthodox rules

Different starting position	Fischer random chess Displacement chess Transcendental chess
Different number of pieces	Dunsany's chess Handicap
Unorthodox board	Balbo's game Circular chess Cylinder chess Double chess Grid chess Hexagonal chess (Cross chess, Masonic chess) Infinite chess Millennium 3D chess Minichess (Los Alamos chess) Rhombic chess Spherical chess Three-dimensional chess Triangular chess

Unorthodox
rules with
traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Andernach chess Atomic chess Beirut chess Checkless chess Chessplus Circe chess Crazyhouse Cubic chess Dynamo chess Extinction chess Hostage chess Knight relay chess Legan chess Losing chess Madrasi chess Monochromatic chess Patrol chess PlunderChess Portal chess Progressive chess Three-check chess Way of the Knight
Multimove variants	Avalanche chess Kung-Fu Chess Marseillais chess Monster chess Progressive chess
Elements of chance	Dark chess Dice chess Knightmare Chess Kriegspiel Penultima
Unorthodox rules on an unorthodox board	Alice chess Apocalypse Chad Chessence Congo Diplomat chess Dragonfly Jeson Mor Parallel worlds chess Rollerball 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel

Unorthodox
rules using
non-traditional
pieces

Standard 8×8 board	Baroque Berolina Chakra Chess with different armies Duell Falcon–hunter chess Grasshopper chess Musketeer chess Pocket mutation chess
Compound pieces	Almost chess Capablanca chess Capablanca random chess Chancellor chess Embassy chess Grand Chess Janus Chess Maharajah and the Sepoys Modern chess Seirawan chess Tutti-frutti chess
Unorthodox boards and pieces	Chesquerque Chess on a really big board Courier-Spiel Dragonchess Gess Omega Chess Stratomic Dekle's triangular chess 2000 A.D. Wildebeest chess Wolf chess

Multiplayer

Inspired games

Chess-related
games

Historical	Chadarangam Chaturaji Chaturanga Courier chess Grant Acedrex Shatranj Short assize Tamerlane chess
Regional	Janggi variants Makruk Senterej Shatar Shogi Chu shogi Dai shogi Other variants Sittuyin Xiangqi Jungle Banqi Manchu chess Game of the Three Kingdoms Game of the Three Friends Game of the Seven Kingdoms Other variants