Four-player chess written c. 1500. The "Tithitattva" of Raghunandana describes such a version, which continued to be played into the 20th century. The first documented example of a modern four-player chess system was written by Captain George Hope Verney in England in 1881. The most common form of play is two vs. two in which allied pieces cannot eliminate each other, but help the others in defense and offense. The allied players sit across from each other and help checkmate the people to the left and right of them. The game is over when both opposing kings are checkmated. If only one
How (video game) How (video game) How (stylized as HOW) is a freeware, indie 2D platform videogame for Windows-based machines released in 2012 by Danish videogame developer Michael Jensen which became notorious for its high difficulty level and unfair abuse of the player based on unexpected death traps. The game plays like any standard 2-d platform game in which the player can move the main character, Foxy McBox, through the level with the arrow keys and jump, but unlike in most games of its genre, the character cannot be controlled once in mid-air and will need forward momentum in order to jump in