No, upside-down, or rather rotated 180°. You have rows 1-8 and columns a-h (which are usually written in lower case, as upper case are used for piece value). h1 and a8 are the white corners you mention, with rooks on them initially. White's "home" are on row 1 and 2. These coordinates are usually printed on the board.
In our case black's home was on row 1,2. The king and queen was thankfully positioned "correctly" given this mishap, as normally the white queen are on a white square (and likewise for black queen and square), but not in our case. White still had short castling on his right hand side.
What I wonder is if Kasparov (or any expert) remembers movements from the coordinates, rather than (or in addition to) seeing the pieces on the board, and how much this impacted our game.
That’s interesting. I’ve never played chess on a physical board that had printed row and column ID’s. I’m surprised anyone would care about that while playing, since it’s irrelevant to the rules, but I’m no more than a casual player.
In our case black's home was on row 1,2. The king and queen was thankfully positioned "correctly" given this mishap, as normally the white queen are on a white square (and likewise for black queen and square), but not in our case. White still had short castling on his right hand side.
What I wonder is if Kasparov (or any expert) remembers movements from the coordinates, rather than (or in addition to) seeing the pieces on the board, and how much this impacted our game.