Talk:Four-Player Chess/Common openings/1. h3

I call this opening 'opening black' as the opening of the black diagonals is, as the text suggests, the truly important thing about this opening. The old 'King's Pawn' nomenclature reflects the two player chess emphasis, important in that context, of the fact that the move is in front of the King, which makes a push toward the center, etc. Those things are much, much less important in 4 player chess, where the issue of the diagonals is supremely important for the first few moves. -Von


 * I would suggest to call it 'dark-squared opening' or 'opening on the dark squares / dark-squared diagonals', since it is more common in chess to refer to squares being 'dark' and 'light', as opposed to 'black' and 'white'. (By the way, sign any comments you leave with four tildes ( ~ ). That will automatically be converted into your user signature with timestamp.) 4PlayerChess (discuss • contribs) 04:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)


 * I changed "black" to "dark-squared" as I proposed and I removed the sentence mentioning that "Red keeps a useful check on Green in hand", since sacrificing the queen on Green for check is not really useful in the opening. Not only because it would be a queen sacrifice, but also because Green moves before Red, so Red cannot actually stop any threats by checking Green. Instead I added a reference to Fool's mate, which is an example of why the open g1-n8 diagonal to Green could potentially be dangerous. 4PlayerChess (discuss • contribs) 03:47, 9 January 2019 (UTC)