A footnote on chessboard orientation: as you know, when setting up the board, both players must have a white square at their right-hand corner. In addition, if your board displays the letters for files A-H and the numbers for ranks 1-8, the white player’s pieces should occupy the side of the board on which the letters read alphabetically from left to right. Otherwise, any reference to square notation won’t make sense. So only white can ever open with the pawn moves e4 or d4, for example – or, as was played on Monday, c4 (the English Opening) or f4 (Bird’s Opening). Provided by our group member, Mark
