Looks like I'll have to shelve plans to continue this because there is a bug in the Chess960 castling in the Chess.com game viewer. In the above start SP955, in the alternate line at move 23 white castles kingside but the viewer puts the king and rook on the wrong squares.
Advanced Chess960 Marathon SP955 (SP001 mirrored)
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I'll be playing through as many SP's as I can against the latest Stockfish at full strength using Komodo-9 as my kibitzer. Time control is 15/2. The exercise will be to play each SP as black and to keep playing the SP until at least a draw is achieved. I'll play the position twice; first game letting Stockfish decide it's opening move, second game I will play Stockfish's first move and let the game go on from there.
I'm hoping to learn more about Chess960 strategies using computer assistance. Feel free to comment but I would prefer if it were relevant to this start position.
SP 955 (SP001 mirrored) - Stockfish chooses first move:
SP955 plays differently to SP001 because it is difficult to castle kingside, and castling queenside leaves the a-file exposed. I therefore found it harder to play than SP001. On my second attempt, Komodo and I found a way to draw that in a real life game would be really difficult to pull off.