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Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Jörg Knappen wrote on Fri, Sep 5, 2014 11:34 AM UTC:

I don't see how the Cylindrical Cinders can capture a Rook on move 1. For cylindrical chess a board glued between the files h1--8 and a1--8 is usually assumed. A cylindrical bishop can move, e.g.,  from a1 to h2, but not from a1 to, say, b8. Even though the rooks are initially unprotected, they are not directly reachable for the Cinders behind their wall of pawns.

Gluing the board the other way round, along the ranks (a-h)1 and (a-h)8 is very unusual and you would start up with the opposite Kings in direct contact.