Everything here seems to have been designed with the goal of confusing the player as much as possible as leading principle. The board is needlessly distorted, coordinates are needlessly garbled... It is also possible to to draw a regular 8x8 board such that all squares become diamonds, and files and ranks become spirals. Or to assign the rank labels a-h in the opposit direction on ranks 5-8.
Everything here seems to have been designed with the goal of confusing the player as much as possible as leading principle. The board is needlessly distorted, coordinates are needlessly garbled... It is also possible to to draw a regular 8x8 board such that all squares become diamonds, and files and ranks become spirals. Or to assign the rank labels a-h in the opposit direction on ranks 5-8.