Answers.Body: <p>Here are some ideas that might help!
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Answers.Text: Very nice! Do you have some background for that, or did you just made it up for your own? Where do we get so many small tables for the setup?
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Answers.Text: @mliebelt Thanks! I made it on my own! The question was quite interesting, so I took the challenge! For playing in 4, I think you can still use the 3 tables you showed in your picture, but make a triangle and one plays in the middle, if it is not too far for the others. The small tables help to have a closer layout, such as those square ones from schools, enough to have a board on it! Cheers!
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Body: <p>Lately, we have done an experiment in our chess club and liked it much. We were 4 players, and we wanted to play simultaneous each against each other. This setup worked (more or less, see the following diagram):</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/h21YN.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The players 1, 2, and 3 may sit on their tables, but the player 4 (myself) had to walk around from board to board (identified by <code>Pl4</code>).</p>
  
  <p>Then a 5th player came around, and we could not find a reasonable setup where we can play and know who is playing where.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a known problem, and for how many are solutions known? For 2, 3, and 4, it is easy, but how about higher numbers?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It isn't quite the same thing, but check out a variant called "bughouse". Tons of fun!
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Comments.Text: We play that a lot (at least with the younger players). In Germany known as "Tandem". From time to time, we test some variations we don't know. My favorite one: Hand and Brain. 2x2 players, one players says first e.g. pawn, the other player has to move a pawn. No tips allowed. With time control, you need some more time (> 10 minutes). Lots of fun!
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Comments.Text: This is a really interesting question, I'd like to know the answer myself.
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Tags: <chess-variants><simultaneous>
Title: How to play chess against a large number of players simultaneously?
ThreadText: # How to play chess against a large number of players simultaneously?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-09-21)
  
  Lately, we have done an experiment in our chess club and liked it much. We were 4 players, and we wanted to play simultaneous each against each other. This setup worked (more or less, see the following diagram):
  
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/h21YN.png)
  
  The players 1, 2, and 3 may sit on their tables, but the player 4 (myself) had to walk around from board to board (identified by `Pl4`).
  
  Then a 5th player came around, and we could not find a reasonable setup where we can play and know who is playing where.
  
  Is this a known problem, and for how many are solutions known? For 2, 3, and 4, it is easy, but how about higher numbers?
  
  **Tags:** chess-variants, simultaneous
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It isn't quite the same thing, but check out a variant called "bughouse". Tons of fun!  
  > **username_0**: We play that a lot (at least with the younger players). In Germany known as "Tandem". From time to time, we test some variations we don't know. My favorite one: Hand and Brain. 2x2 players, one players says first e.g. pawn, the other player has to move a pawn. No tips allowed. With time control, you need some more time (> 10 minutes). Lots of fun!  
  > **username_2**: This is a really interesting question, I'd like to know the answer myself.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2014-11-25. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  Here are some ideas that might help!
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/77i6o.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Very nice! Do you have some background for that, or did you just made it up for your own? Where do we get so many small tables for the setup?  
  > **username_3**: @username_0 Thanks! I made it on my own! The question was quite interesting, so I took the challenge! For playing in 4, I think you can still use the 3 tables you showed in your picture, but make a triangle and one plays in the middle, if it is not too far for the others. The small tables help to have a closer layout, such as those square ones from schools, enough to have a board on it! Cheers!  
  
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