Editing Cylinder chess (section)

{{Short description|Chess variant}}
[[Image:Cylindrical chessboard 2.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|Cylindrical [[chessboard]]]]
'''Cylinder chess''' (or '''cylindrical chess''') is a [[chess variant]]. The game is played as if the board were a [[Cylinder (geometry)|cylinder]], with the left side of the board joined to the right side. Cylinder chess is one of six chess variants described by the Arabic historian [[Ali al-Masudi]] in 947.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091028082822/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/oldtexts.htm Earliest chess books and references] by Bill Wall.</ref>{{efn|Other described variants include astrological chess and [[circular chess]].}}

The cylindrical board is used in some [[chess problems]].
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