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Four-Player Chess — Five boards, four armies, one cross
Ready to installVariants4 players, 5 boards

Four-Player Chess

Five boards, four armies, one cross

Arrange five boards in a plus shape and play four-way chess on a 24×24 field. Alliances form, break, and get punished.

How it plays

  • 1

    Four armies start on the four outer boards and fight over the center.

  • 2

    Turn order runs clockwise: White, Green, Blue, Red.

  • 3

    Capturing a king eliminates that player and their pieces come off the board.

  • 4

    Last army standing wins.

What the lights do

Each player gets their own color, and the board you are sitting at brightens when it is your turn.

What you need

  • Five boards

Runs on

Open Chess Board · ESP32-S3

Built by Concept Bytes · based on four_player_chess.ino

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Make it yours

The Code tab has the full Arduino sketch this build comes from, hardware code included.

Open the codefour_player_chess.ino905 lines

Requires: Adafruit NeoPixel. Board target is ESP32S3 Dev Module.