The contribution of the Byzantine chessboard via the modern approach to educational chess, derives, not only from the revival of a game after centuries, but also through its structural features which allow for clarification and research of chess thinking.
Let’s look at some examples in order to highlight some properties. One of the key elements in chess is the issue re: the relative value of the pieces in chess.
With the Byzantine chessboard, the straight lines which are converted into circles, enhance the pieces of the Queen and the towers, therefore, they are upgraded. Simultaneously, while the horse and the bishop have a lower relative value, the complexity of their movements allow whoever is executing them correctly to be quite dangerous in a relatively full board.
This is quite important for the development of young people’s thinking, since the simple diagonal’s and the gamma movements are enriched, and teach them how to manage more complex data over the chessboard, but also to understand more concretely, how important it is for the classic chess for someone to stand correctly in order to observe well the diagonal’s of the bishops, so as to avoid the parallax problem, but also higher, in order to correctly observe without the horizon problem, when there are horses on the chessboard.
In this way the Byzantine chessboard is converted into an educational tool for the development of small people’s thinking .