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leejunne commented at 2014-04-28 20:48:49 » #1526362
I was certain someone would bring that up.
The results are rather curious. Notice how the setup is completely symmetrical, rather than just a single mistake - both knights are where the rooks should be on both black and white's sides, and vice-versa. Furthermore, the king switches places with a bishop, and the queens are on the wrong spaces (there's a principle that the white queen goes on the white space and the black queen goes on the black space, I don't know how to explain).
The biggest difference? Both the pawns that stand in front of the rooks are missing from both sides, meaning they each only have 6 pawns.
My conclusion is that this is some sort of variant of chess, which isn't terribly uncommon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant
Only thing is I can't find one that looks like this. As some of you may know, Japan's a bit more interesting in the likes of Go and Shogi, so it's not the strangest thing for a Japanese citizen to not know how to set up and play chess (the opposite is true for me, I have no idea how Shogi works).
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I was certain someone would bring that up.
The results are rather curious. Notice how the setup is completely symmetrical, rather than just a single mistake - both knights are where the rooks should be on both black and white's sides, and vice-versa. Furthermore, the king switches places with a bishop, and the queens are on the wrong spaces (there's a principle that the white queen goes on the white space and the black queen goes on the black space, I don't know how to explain).
The biggest difference? Both the pawns that stand in front of the rooks are missing from both sides, meaning they each only have 6 pawns.
My conclusion is that this is some sort of variant of chess, which isn't terribly uncommon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant
Only thing is I can't find one that looks like this. As some of you may know, Japan's a bit more interesting in the likes of Go and Shogi, so it's not the strangest thing for a Japanese citizen to not know how to set up and play chess (the opposite is true for me, I have no idea how Shogi works).
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leejunne commented at 2014-04-29 14:40:27 » #1526778
Just brought it up on /tg/, and the general verdict is the lack of the significance of chess in Japanese culture.
That, and it bears resemblance to the 960 set of rules.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960
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Just brought it up on /tg/, and the general verdict is the lack of the significance of chess in Japanese culture.
That, and it bears resemblance to the 960 set of rules.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960
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