Answers.Body: <p>I've played 3- and 4-board "bughouse" with 6 or 8 people total, and can imagine higher counts though the logistics must soon become unmanageable.</p>
  
  <p>In another direction, you can have a consultation game on a single board.  Such games used to be 2-on-1 (handicap) or 2-on-2 affairs, but in the Internet age the number of players on a side is virtually unlimited, as was already seen in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World" rel="nofollow">this famous game</a> back in 1999.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I understand there is 3 man and 4 man chess but is there anything higher?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Unlimited number of kibitzers.
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Comments.Text: What about the famous "Player X vs the World" games? Theoretically there could be 7.2 billion players on one side!
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Title: What is the largest amount of players at once that can play during a single chess game?
ThreadText: # What is the largest amount of players at once that can play during a single chess game?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-02)
  
  I understand there is 3 man and 4 man chess but is there anything higher?
  
  **Tags:** chess-variants
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Unlimited number of kibitzers.  
  > **username_2**: What about the famous "Player X vs the World" games? Theoretically there could be 7.2 billion players on one side!  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-12-03. Score: 2
  
  I've played 3- and 4-board "bughouse" with 6 or 8 people total, and can imagine higher counts though the logistics must soon become unmanageable.
  
  In another direction, you can have a consultation game on a single board. Such games used to be 2-on-1 (handicap) or 2-on-2 affairs, but in the Internet age the number of players on a side is virtually unlimited, as was already seen in [this famous game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World) back in 1999.
  
  
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