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All the chess matches I'm aware of have been 1v1. There have been team competitions such as the Olympiads, but I am not sure if you are allowed to discuss moves with your teammates in Olympiads. I assume not since news reports don't usually mention the teammates discussing. If so then Olympiads are just a series of 1v1 games.

I am wondering if there has ever been a consultation chess tournament/match of the kind where a group of players play against another group of players, and both sides are able to talk and discuss moves before they are made. If so, I'd like details of the tournament/match.

A few close cases:

  1. Hand and brain chess, although the hand and brain are not supposed to talk.
  2. Kasparov vs. the world was sort of a consultation game, but it was also a correspondence game since the time control was very long. I am looking only for OTB games.
  3. another close case: pair matches eg this or the mixed sex version, although the teams are not supposed to talk.
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  • How notable does it need to be? I'm sure there have been plenty of casual 2v2 games over the years. Do they count? – Brian McCutchon Aug 05 '21 at 06:02
  • @BrianMcCutchon being reported by major chess websites (e.g. Chess.com, Chessbase, Chessdom ...) would suffice. Or if it's recorded by major chess databases, e.g. Lichess, Chessgames, Caissabase. – Allure Aug 05 '21 at 06:07
  • Do 1v2 games count, or do there need to be multiple people on each side? – Brian McCutchon Aug 05 '21 at 06:09
  • @BrianMcCutchon I prefer multiple vs. multiple, although if you are aware of any 1v2 games I would still find them interesting. – Allure Aug 05 '21 at 06:15
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    You might be interested in chess.com vs chessbruhs team match, that feature Danny and Robert vs Eric and Aman. – Akavall Aug 05 '21 at 17:39
  • @Akavall you should post that as an answer =) – Allure Aug 05 '21 at 20:17
  • If you're looking for OTB, it seems to me that you should put that in the beginning. And a consultation game pretty much necessitates not being a traditional OTB game, as you can't fit a lot of people around a board, and if the consultations are in private, then that requires a private space, although the moves themselves can be made OTB. – Acccumulation Aug 06 '21 at 01:05
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    @Acccumulation presumably you could still have one group speak, e.g., Italian while the other group speaks French, and neither would understand the other. – Allure Aug 06 '21 at 02:12
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    @Allure Italian team: "Dovremmo fiancetto?" French team: "Qu'es ce que cela pourrai possiblement dire?" – Acccumulation Aug 06 '21 at 03:01
  • another close case: pair matches? eg [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBGuCcJkuz4) or the [mixed sex version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF86T8RUrk) – BCLC Aug 06 '21 at 13:54
  • what about [vote chess eg on chess.com](https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/what-is-vote-chess2) ? – BCLC Aug 06 '21 at 13:58
  • @Acccumulation Well........ils ont dit 'fianchetto' soooooo...? – BCLC Aug 06 '21 at 14:00

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A chessgames.com user has made a compilation of consultation games. For example, it contains Lasker / Pillsbury vs Steinitz / Chigorin. According to a comment by user TheFocus, it was "played in St. Petersburg, Russia on January 29, 1896."

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