Hello and welcome to my bughouse guide. Let me start of by giving my general mindset of the game in relation to my partners. I am one a few players who play with an equal desire to help my partner win as I do to win my own board. (The strategies I use for this will be in the concepts). It doesn't matter one bit to me who mates, a win is a win. Because of my style my partner has opportunities to play way above his level and win games vs much stronger players, often to the disbelief of my opponents. Fun times :) It's incredibly important to take responsibility for the team's results. There's no "my partner played bad and I crushed". You win and lose as a team. Sometimes frustration happens, but it's so much easier it is to play well if you're focused on what you can do instead of whether your partner is playing good enough. Partners are so dependent on each other. If your partner loses, there's nearly always something you could have done better ...