a 10x10 board is a 14x14 board with a bunch of walls on the edge.
Custom Board Editor Pawn Promotion Bug
It's there to make editing the board easier. Sometimes if you want to start with a regular 8x8 preset, but want to expand the board to the left, for example, if it began with a,b,c,d, 1,2,3,4, then that's not possible. You would then have to go through the whole tedious process of shifting every piece x squares to the right. If it is in the middle, however, then it becomes far easier to extend the board to the left, and maintain symmetry as well
There is a bug that seems to appear after changing the board size.
This is because the system thinks that the position actually looks like this:
Clearly, this is misleading. This bug needs to be fixed.