Tag Team Chess

While playing a game I just remembered something I saw some years ago in a chess club, that was a lot of fun. I don't know if there's a name, but Ben suggested "Tag team chess".

The point was, that on both sides of the board there were two people, making alternately moves. They must not communicate in anyway. And this was real fun, because you don't know about the plans of your partner.

I would really love to play that again - online. Is there a chance to make this possible?

Thanks in advance and best regards

Reini

The idea is fabulous Reini - I hope that it can happen somehow...

C'mon erik, what do you think?

Spectator amusement peaks when the rating difference between 2 team-mates is high.

@Pathfinder: Indeed it is. I once accompanied someone about 600 ELO higher than me on a 5 min game. Pretty funny to see him trying to fix my blunders.

@PerfectGent

Tag team bullet 1+0 or 1+1

Yes, I watch for the unusual facial expressions and body language :). I should persuade some of our new fall cohort here to indulge in this, it's been a while.

This is a great  idiee I hop that chess.com will work on it

No comment from anyone @ chess.com?

Has anyone seen the 4 player chess set, it seems weird 4 sets of peices but you can actually choose to take someone's king and control there army to take out the other 2 players, Sounds fun

Yeah, isn't that called Chess 4? Pretty awesome, I think.

But I would love to play some Tag-team chess, here on chess.com! I guess it would be unrated though, or a different rating system. I hope they do it, would be a blast!

Bump again!

I recently played a game like this at my local chess club and it was fun.  You can't always be sure what your team mate and sometimes even your opponents thinking is.