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Chess variant where the left and right sides of the board are joined. Pieces can go off one side and reapper on the other.

Otherwise the rules of chess apply, with the following differences:

• There is no castling, because all the files are equivalent, so none is safer for the king than the others, and the rooks are also initially connected.
• Null-moves that do not change the position are not allowed: on an otherwise empty rank, a queen or a rook cannot make a full round to move back to its starting field.

Examples of the piece movement

Basic mates

Only the queen checkmate works from the basic checkmates in chess, because the others require to force the king into a corner, but this chessboard has no corners.

Examples of checkmates:

Notes

The board can be seen as the surface of a cylinder, where the lower and upper side of the board is the two circles of the cylinder.

Similar variant

• Bouncing Chess

External links

• Wikipedia: Cylinder chess
• ChessVariants.com: Cylindrical chess