My Chess Idiosyncracy

One of the first rules of chess, is that the chess board shall be placed, so that there is a white square to the right of each player. Any studied chess player knows why this is so. Anyway I developed a "thing" about noticing in movies, commercials etc...that used a chess set as a prop... on whether the board was set correctly. This started when the USCF set the board wrong on the cover of one of its chess supply magazines.It created a humorous stir. One good example is the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" " Andy likes to play chess, so lets find him some rocks"...however, Andy set the board wrong...you can see it when the warden grabs a chess piece to throw thru the poster of Rachel Welch. On a side note... I think the sister's were after Andy because he had tried to invoke en passant , and being the patzers they were, had never heard of it, and they thought he was cheating. Note: See forum post about invoking en passant in jail...I liked to died laughing when I read that. i would also like to take this opportunity to ask Hollywood, commercial makers to place the board correctly... I'll be watching. :]

Idiosyncracy - noun - a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.

Nothing there seems peculiar to me, it is only right that the board is set correctly. Just as Niel Tyson Degrasse got upset about the shot of the sky in the film Titanic saying that the stars would never be seen like that from that location... you liking chess would notice, just as he liking stars would notice - And James Cameron made the necessary changes...so start writing to directors when they get it wrong!