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Cylinder chess is a variant of western Chess. In this variant, chess is played as if there is no edge on the side of the board. When a piece goes off the right edge of the board in cylinder chess, it reappears on the left edge; when a piece goes off the left edge, it reappears on the right edge. The reason this game is called cylinder chess is because the game is played as if the board was a cylinder, with the left side of the board joined to the right side.
It is legal to move a rook from a3 to h3, even if there is a piece on b3, since the rook can move left from a3. A bishop on c1 can go to h4, by moving from c1 to a3, and then going up and left from a3 to h4.
Bishops are about as valuable as rooks in this variant.
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