Could we get FisherRandom on Chess.com?

I'd love to have chess960 on here. I love chess variants, and there's quite a few I'd love to have on here. Capablanca chess, atomic chess, and circular chess are variants I'd like to see in particular. I think it's a great idea  to have variants; it's not too hard to program and really makes the site more interesting.

While we're on the subject, I think other chess-like games would be a wonderful addition to the site. Shogi always has looked interesting to me (though I've never played), and I love Chinese chess.

I know that's a lot to ask for . If I could change any one thing about the site though, this'd definately be the coolest upgrade for me.

I'm sure most people on the site would prefer to have their stats and records (which are meant to represent the persons skill at the game, and also facilitate proper match making) for traditional chess be preserved and kept seperate from the offshoots; be it chess960, suicide chess, darkchess, or what have you.

That's just my opinion, I certainly would rather have a seperate set of ratings for Chess960. Even though chess.com might not include ever variant under the sun (to a degree the ease of use and simplicity is very appealling to me), I think it would faciliatate my reasoning in that, imagine if Chess.com did support every variant under the sun. If the scoring system was merely one for all, I don't think it would be a proper representation of a persons overall skill at any version of chess.

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i would play FRChess

I think it would be a great addition to this site, but someone needs to contact Erik.

I would love to play some Chess960... especially because I'm not into learning all the booklines for the attacks and defences.  I do feel that the rating should be independent of the normal rating.  Adding it to Chess.com would only have positive outcomes!

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camdawg7 wrote: i dont know exactly what it is but if it has anything to do with chess i'm all for it!

Wikipedia has a very good article on the subject. Fischerandom and chess960 are two names for the same thing.

To my mind I think the ratings and seeks would have to be seperate, especially in the beginnings – I can see it rankling some people otherwise. I think where we have the tab on the far left wherein it gives a person the option to play chess or play against the computer, it would just go to three options – play classic chess, play the computer, or play Chess960. We could have seperate stats and seeks – this would preserve the sanctity of the normal rating – I wouldn't want anyone to feel like it disrupted their preferred way of doing things – although I can understand, and sympathise, with the programmers who might forsee complications to this that I cannot fathom. The imput of the programmers would be invaluable. by Rael

Has Eric been informed? Good point Rael about leaving the stats and rating seperate from Classic Chess. It would give members a new option and still preserve the sanctuary of Classic Chess.