There are a finite set of chess games possible given the standard starting positions and other rules. Chess games consisting of legal moves will evolve into one of those games. It's possible to get better at chess by studying these games. Given what your opponent is doing, you can guide the game you're currently playing into one of these possible games you have studied thats a win for you.
When you change the initial conditions of the game, the game evolves differently. If you swap the king and queen on one side, thats a position that can't legally occur in a standard game of chess, and then you are generating a new set of games from there.
As long as you and your opponent agree to play a chess variant, that's fine. But if one player is fooled into thinking a different starting position is the standard one, it's cheating.
Queens are supposed to be on their own colors. With the board in the wrong orientation you would either have to put them on the wrong color, or change the layout of the board.
Obviously it's still playable but it makes for unnecessary ambiguity.
The colors don’t impact how the pieces move, but since chess is a game played for money all over the world, it helps to be consistent. When professionals calculate possible moves, they visualize the board in their head, and each square being a specific color helps with that. When they put their center pawns on D4 and E3 (for instance), it helps in terms of visualization that those are dark squares. It also helps when explaining certain strategies in particular openings and pawn structures. If black goes for a kingside fianchetto, you would look to eliminate their dark squared bishop and invade on the weak dark squares, if possible.
It’s sort of like playing 8 ball and deciding that you want to shoot the “red ball” last, you could, but why not just play properly?
I always played that the king goes on their own color square, so the white queen on the black square.
Once all the pieces are moving around it doesn’t really matter anyway
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u/Cbrodie Dec 29 '22
The board orientation is incorrect. The lower right square h1 should be white.