So much easier to read that's why
Why are 2d boards arranged the way they are?
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bloons wrote:
So much easier to read that's why
That's only because you're used to seeing one side on top and the other side on the bottom. If we started off using a left/right arrangement, then if one day you saw a 2d board arranged top/bottom, you would think that that was hard to read.
I guess so... Maybe
Bump. Seriously, am I the only one who noticed this?
If I am watching the game, yes. I watch from the side.
But if I am playing the game, I sit behind the pieces. I don't sit on a side of the board and neither does my opponent.
Extending what Rsava said: It would not be practical for moving the pieces/hitting the clock to have two players sitting and looking at the board sideways. It makes a lot more sense for one player to be behind one color and the other to be behind the other color - this then is translated into chess books as it's the same as playing OTB.
... as opposed to this:
Why do we assume that black and white should start from the top and bottom of the board, when it works just as well for them to start from the left and right? And it actually makes sense for the 2 sides to be on the left and right, because that's how people normally watch an OTB game.
Of course, in the diagram I posted above, the colors of the squares are wrong (the bottom left corner is dark). However, this is ony because the board was designed for one side to be on the top and the other on the bottom, and could be fixed easily by rotating the board 90 degrees.