A Fairy Chess in which the edges of the board are imagined to be joined like a cylinder. Piece can move from one side to the other without crossing the centre of the board. So, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 g5 3. c3 is checkmate.
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Quotes of the Day
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments.
Lev Polugaevsky 1990 NIC
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz