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.

When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player! Nigel Short
2016
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Tartakower
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it. G. Borg
2016
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition. Anatoly Karpov
NIC 2010

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