Chess960 Explained!

is chess960 playable with the app for iPhone?

yes. I don't have mine re-charged to check, but if memory is correct, it shows in game options on the iphone 'create challenge' same as it does on the website on that drop down option

ok, got it running now (new to the iPhone/apps...), thanks!

Could someone tell me how to castle when playing 960 on chess.com?

I mean I know the 960 castling rules, but somehow it does NOT work when I play against someone on chess.com, why is that? Am I doing something wrong?

Chess960 does not help my career of but obviously but I go back to it just in case a silly position comes up in my actual game.

@Veht.. thanks alot man. I'll try that. Hope it works!

I prefer Chess960 to regular chess- I think it might even take over in the next 50 years.

Yes it isdonyutuc. The squares between rook and king are free, as are the squares whereking and rook must end up. So queen side castling is possible. I agree it looks a bit funny.

Yes, if it became more popular than standard Chess in so many years, that would reflect success in studying its peculiarities. So far, how much has been done to categorize the openings -- I would start by categorizing according to most striking feature of each position... Examples: 1) Queen or bishop at the corner; 2) bishop duo in the center, corner or elsewhere; 3) knight duo at the corner; etc.

Categorizing is quite tricky, but I find it worthwhile as, in starting a new game, I sometimes discover significant similarities in another game played with a slighly different starting position. That helps in planning the strategy in the new game. How about that?

Why has 4+ years and counting, and chess 960 is still unavailable in live chess (non-corresspondence) on chess.com?

Other sites have it available for live play for a many years, and chess.com has already had it programmed in (for correspondence play) for many years now as well.

Surely this could be added to live play with little difficulty, and should be added in ASAP? All that would be required (or so it seems, I'm not a programmer myself) would be to add a timer to the game and make the 960 icon different from the regular chess icon (i.e. someting other than a circle).

With a reported 6.7 million members, 55,832 of which have played 960 via chess.com's correspondence/online feature, surely this feature is worth adding to live chess as well, and as soon as possible?

Can someone tell me how to start a live 960 game I can't figure how to?

I prefer standard chess.

I love my opening tricks.

Most people prefer standard chess, just like more people prefer vanilla ice cream as compared to other flavors. That doesn't mean that other flavors should be excluded, especially when people are known to like them and when they can easily be produced.

This may be a stupid question but how do I get this option?

It's only available via online (correspondence) chess.

Go to Play (top left), then click "online chess", then "start new game", then under the Select Game Options (top-ish left) change "standard chess" to "chess960"

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hope that chess.com do it