Chess software and chess 960

Does chess software usually support chess 960? How about Fritz in particular?

(I mean including the specific castling rules - it's more than just entering a different setup.)

Yup. I haven't seen one that doesn't.

I have been wondering this too. evertVB and myself have been playing some good games, but so far he is the only person who has wanted to play 960 (my other challenges have been declined)

I am on Linux, and I have been having a very hard time even finding any decent chess software at all on Linux.

GNU chess plays like deep blue against me and kills me in 12 moves with no way to adjust difficulty it seems. I have been using it to "teach myself" by learning the perfect lines it plays against my openings , but once in a while I'd like a casual game that lasts more than 5 minutes.

Any suggestions, please share.

I used to use DreamChess, but it had no options, and I can't even get it to run on the latest version of KDE... I think the project is dead.

m-a-k-a-r-i-o-s by the way, did you try open seeks?

Fritz seems to support chess960, but it's not listed here: http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404FRC/

Komodo doesn't support it as far as I can tell.

I think pfren has had some good suggestions.

I Googled OpenSeeks and didn't find anything... Is this a chess program for Linux?

There are plenty of weak Chess engines available for Linux, and some of those play Chess960 as well. For instance Roce:

http://www.rocechess.ch/rocee.html

You can run it under XBoard, if you have Polyglot installed. (Roce is UCI, so it needs an adapter.) If it is still too strong for you, you can dumb it down by giving it time odds (like a factor 10 or 100).

Yes=Try micrsoft explorer

Oh... I just realized that "Open Seeks" is a feature of this site.

Still rather new here, haven't really explored everything yet. I'll give it a shot though.

I found a good one. Arena chess has chess960 and works great in Ubuntu