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In interesting variant that has a board geometry somewhat like that of Circular Chess.
I've heard of non-edge variants of chess, but I hadn't read this specific page until just recently. The game seems interesting and might eliminate the usual "going for the center in the opening" strategy. Still, I can't help but wonder if the king might be tough to mate if there are no right and left edges. Can a knight, bishop and king mate the lone opponent king?
Maybe they should make a restriction on the king - he is restricted to the usual board edges perhaps?
I think, it's best unusual way to play ever!
I've enjoyed this variant since I read about it in a Thieves'World story (I believe it was 'Spiders of the Purple Mage'). In my experience, castling is essentially useless because there aren't any corners to hide in. Actually, I defeated one opponent because he relied on it. He also let me take out his queen with a pawn across the 'edge'.
A possible rule to add that when castling normally the king moves two squares, when castling over the edge the king move three squares. The notation to this can simply be O-G , O-H , O-C and O-B . It depends on where the king lands. For discriptive notation : O-KN , O-R , O-B and O-QN .
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The page for this game was very old and the content wasn't really appropriate as a formal description of this historic game, so I have completely rewritten it. The original version can still be found here.