This chess board doesn't make any sense, unless someone can explain to me how the hell did pawns got to the a8 and b8.

It's Gensokyo. Everything is possible XD

also she is clearly moving the wrong piece, her caste is about to be pawned, even with that pawn of hers protecting the castle, you can see by the opponents reaction that it is a sacrifice worth making for white. Ignoring the pawns in teh corner i'd say white will win this easily.

Maybe they don't have a full set of pieces and the pawns at the back symbolise other pieces.

Edit: Look around the board, there are no taken pieces anywhere. Perhaps their pieces respawn at the back after being killed in combat.

Or maybe they're just playing wrong. Don't tell me none of you ever made up rules to a game you didn't know.
To me this picture looks like Remilia was all "I know the rules" (Insert wrong rule explanation here) and Sakuya knows the real rules and is humoring her, and winning.

dragonfyre said:
Or maybe they're just playing wrong. Don't tell me none of you ever made up rules to a game you didn't know.
To me this picture looks like Remilia was all "I know the rules" (Insert wrong rule explanation here) and Sakuya knows the real rules and is humoring her, and winning.

Good explanation! But I think that knowing the rules but playing with Remilia's rules suits more Sakuya

https://yande.re/image/6c0f9652b89b77f60440b94c7503267e/yande.re%20180772%20chibi%20hounori%20izayoi_sakuya%20koakuma%20remilia_scarlet%20touhou.png

Have you guys seen this? It's not by the same artist but it's somehow related XD