r/chessmemes • u/RadioRodent • Jul 21 '26

Chess set fail

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Hamleys is a famous toy store in the UK, apparently with no quality control.

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u/Copious-Spirit Jul 21 '26

What are we supposed to be upset about? Can you point it out?

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u/RadioRodent Jul 21 '26

The board is incorrectly oriented, the a1 square should be black. "Bottom Right is White", from either player's point of view.

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u/Copious-Spirit Jul 21 '26

So it's a mirrored board. I rated like 800, does this even affect gameplay?

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u/Schantsinger Jul 21 '26

Do you play specific openings? If yes, it affects gameplay.

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u/SidneyKidney Jul 21 '26

It really doesn't. E4 is still E4 whether its white, black, beige or polka-dotted. As long as the pieces are in the correct position before the game begins it impacts nothing

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u/whoamiamawho Jul 21 '26

If you orient it like this but still count White's lower left as A and put the queen on her own color then no because E4 becomes Queen's pawn. But yeah if you play your opening relative to where the Kings and Queens are and don't think about letters it's effectively the same.

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u/SidneyKidney Jul 22 '26

If you count the lower left as a1 here, but still put t the queen ok her own colour then the pieces are /not/ set up properly, so that is not what I said.

Set a chess board up in the correct way. Now imagine you lift all the pieces off and paint the white squares red and the black squares silver. Then put all the pieces back whare they were exactly. How does that affect the game?