🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Oct 8, 2004 03:58 AM UTC:
In an earlier comment, I wrote:
According to Pritchard, the Champion (R+N) goes on the King's side and the Centaur (B+N) goes on the Queen's side. He also mentions that Murray mixes the names. Since this page describes the positions of Champion and Centaur as the reverse of what Pritchard says, and given what he says about Murray mixing the names, it looks like this page gets the setup of the game wrong. It would seem that it is my Capablanca variation, not Aberg's, that has the same setup as Carrera's Chess.
I just came back to this page, because I was reading Parton's description of this game in Dasapada. Parton gives the same description as Pritchard, but I have just noticed that the King and Queen are reversed in the diagram provided on this page. The White King is to the Queen's left instead of to her right. Thus, the descriptions given by Pritchard and Parton actually do fit the diagram given here. But I think confusion has arisen from the general understanding that Queen-side means White's left and King-side means White's right. In this game, it is the reverse. It turns out that the setup shown on this page is just the mirror image of the array used for Aberg's Capablanca variation, and they are mathematically identical.
In an earlier comment, I wrote:
I just came back to this page, because I was reading Parton's description of this game in Dasapada. Parton gives the same description as Pritchard, but I have just noticed that the King and Queen are reversed in the diagram provided on this page. The White King is to the Queen's left instead of to her right. Thus, the descriptions given by Pritchard and Parton actually do fit the diagram given here. But I think confusion has arisen from the general understanding that Queen-side means White's left and King-side means White's right. In this game, it is the reverse. It turns out that the setup shown on this page is just the mirror image of the array used for Aberg's Capablanca variation, and they are mathematically identical.