How to play
Cylinder Chess
The board can be imagined as a cylinder with no horizontal edges on either side.
Introduction
The board can be imagined as being wrapped around a cylinder resulting in a board with no horizontal edges. Therefore, the H file sits next to the A file, and pieces can move freely (and give check) from side of the board to he other.
This variant is played from the standard starting position of Standard Chess.All pieces move just as in Standard Chess
Pieces can even capture and mate around the cylinder too. Note the pawn capture from H to A. Also that the Rook at C2 can capture both black Pawns at E2 and F2 - one from each direction!
A random placement of pieces to illustrate legal moves.
Pieces can not return to their starting position, which would effectively be not moving at all!
Pawn promotion rules remains the same as Standard Chess.
Normal Standard ChessEn passant rules remains the same as Standard Chess.
Check and Checkmate rules remain the same as Standard Chess.
Stalemate conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Draw conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Winning conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Also Known As
Cylindrical ChessSome chess variants are currently playable live and all will soon be available to play as daily/correspondence chess.
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