Years active 2012 - present Players 2, 3 or 4 | Language(s) Spanish, english Setup time 1 minute | |
Genre(s) Board game, abstract strategy game Playing time | ||
Four Fronts (Cuatro Frentes in Spanish) is a board game created by Uruguayan Gabriel Baldi Lemonnier.
History
It was created in 2012, by the Uruguayan professor Gabriel Baldi Lemonnier, who invented and patented it as «Ajedrez Uruguayo» (Uruguayan Chess).
It is a variant of chess, for two, three or four opponents who play in pairs or individually. Although they play in pairs, peers can not 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.
The pieces are 12 per player: the king, the queen, the bishop, the knight, rook and the pawn, incorporating as a novelty the prince (piece that combines movement the bishop and the tower). The pieces are colored in white, black, yellow and red.