CYLINDRICAL CHESS

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.

” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
Carlsen simply plays chess well. It seems to me that in such cases people are inclined to look for some supernatural explanation, although the simplest explanation is also the most appropriate: the guy simply plays chess well. Alexander Grischuk
2014
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead! Mikhail Tal
1966
” Chess is most certainly not my life.” Tony Miles
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010

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