HORIZONTAL CYLINDER

A type of Fairy chessboard where the first and eighth ranks are joined. The board is symbolized by an ordinary diagram without borders on top and bottom. Also named Cylinder Chess.

If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible. Magnus Carlsen
2016
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
In the 70s Karpov was a darling of the Politburo or the political elite. So Kramnik is now. Just like the old days. But at least Karpov, unlike him, played in and won qualifying matches. Veselin Topalov
There is no room for gallantry in chess. Irving Chernev
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there. Robert Fischer
1961

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HORIZONTAL CYLINDER

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