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This is most definitely wrong, and I think any but the most beginning player would notice. It doesn't affect the theory of the game, of course, but there are go

• Cpoll 8y ago
  I think it depends on how you learned to play. Personal anecdote: I learned the game from another casual player, and played a few hundred hours without learning any openings (but developing my own crude ones) or even knowing 'en passant.' Only when I actually started studying theory did I learn the orientation rule and understand why that sort of consistency is important. Now a flipped board sticks out like a sore thumb.
  • ourmandave 8y ago
    Back in junior high I remember watching two kids playing an end game and their kings were right next to each other. They'd only heard that "a king can't take a king.", but didn't know why.
• gizmo686 8y ago
  Not chess, but Go has a similar situation. Most boards aren't actually square boards, but slightly rectangular (eg. each cell is a rectangle). Before anyone told me that, I would sometimes sit down at a board and get the sense that something looked wrong; but I could never put my finger on what it was. I suspect that chess might have a similar situation, where someone who has played enough, even if they were never consiously aware of the convention, would get an off fealing if it were set up wrong. (Although, in the case of chess, it is truly a convention. With Go there is an objective sense in which one orientation is better than the other).