Chessnuts is a collection of seven four-player Chess variants and one four-player Checkers variant. They are all played on an 8x8 board with four 2x8 wings.
In five of the Chess variants each player plays individually. The games differ in their victory conditions - in three the object is to be the last player with a king, in the other two captured and remaining pieces are scoring using a points system - the game-ending condition, and the effects of losing one's king.
The other two Chess variants are played in partnerships; in one the players sit opposite each other and in the other they sit adjacent.
All the games are named after types of nut, e.g. the adjacent partners game is called Hazelnut.
The components are a roll-up vinyl board and four sets of plastic pieces, all packaged in a tube.