Chess960 Explained!

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Chess960 starting positions range from 0.0 to 0.79 evals. If you allow random starting positions for both sides, you end up with unbalanced starting positions that are considered winning/losing right out of the gate.

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Are there though? All the pieces are still on the 1st rank blocked in by their own pawns..how much of an advantage, from say, I don't know, both bishops pointing toward the enemy king, could be gained? Wouldn't the imbalances on both sides cancel each other out?

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EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:

Are there though? All the pieces are still on the 1st rank blocked in by their own pawns..how much of an advantage, from say, I don't know, both bishops pointing toward the enemy king, could be gained? Wouldn't the imbalances on both sides cancel each other out?

You can create starting positions with forced loss of material.

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hi

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DiogenesDue wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:

Are there though? All the pieces are still on the 1st rank blocked in by their own pawns..how much of an advantage, from say, I don't know, both bishops pointing toward the enemy king, could be gained? Wouldn't the imbalances on both sides cancel each other out?

You can create starting positions with forced loss of material.

Doubt it, give me an example. All pieces are still blocked by pawns.

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ManoPaiva wrote:

Hi.

the 2 pages that you indicated, have failure

have you a correct address? thanks

To play 960, create a custom challenge and set the game type to Chess960.

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Chess960, interesting

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Ty for helping me

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Cool
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Chess dot Com, please feature 960 more prominently! It's real chess! Make it easy to find a game!! 🫶

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Chess960 and variants chess means??

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Nice

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KAKROACH wrote:

I hate chess 960. Different people different taste. I hate to the hilt.

But I like both regular chess and chess960.. AND YOO @erik i KNOW

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Hello,

I would like to know how can I play Chess 960 on this platform, I have only be able to play it against computer on this platform, but how can I play Chess 960 against other players in Chess.com?

Thank you.

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Play Online/Custom/change from Standard to Chess 960

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AYO waddup

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Thank you all for your answer regarding how to play Chess 960 live on this platform, appreciate it thumbup