>>7990955>you would think it's easy to check a real game or at least see in any sort of chess article how a chess board is arranged but noDrives me nuts, too. I understand the confusion maybe 40 or 50 years ago and earlier, but on today's Internet all basic questions can be resolved in a minute or less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboardhttps://chess.fandom.com/wiki/ChessBut, pretty much no article or website even bothers to describe initial setup. They just jump into a 2000 word essay on how pieces move. It really fucks with people's ability to clearly understand how to remember something so simple.
I mean, it's fucking weird as Hell that the White Queen starts on a white square. The logic would be the White King starts on a white square. So, you have to "just remember" some retarded rule and can never be able to logically reconstruct the how & why.
Similar with the white square to the left. Since almost every rule & description starts out with the assumption the newbie is playing white, what is the fucking logic for the back square to be to the left corner? I've never seen, in any book or website, any explanation for why this retarded, counter-intuitive bullshit.
I've played chess for decades and have still fucked something so simple up because there's no logical reason behind it. It's just "remember this useless trivia" in a world filled with important shit that's already impossible to remember.
