Four Fronts

Four-player chess variant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Four Fronts
Cuatro Frentes
DesignersGabriel Baldi Lemonnier
Years active2012 - present
GenresBoard game, abstract strategy game
LanguagesSpanish, english
Players2, 3 or 4
Setup time1 minute
Playing timeCasual games usually last 4 to 40 minutes.
ChanceNone
Skillstactics, strategy
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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 moves similarly to a queen.[4] The pieces are colored white, black, yellow and red.

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