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Can chess.com please introduce a new room, namely Fischer chess?

Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess or Fischerandom, is a variant of chessinvented and advocated by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer,[1] announced publicly on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[2][3] It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized. The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable, compelling players to rely instead on their talent and creativity.

Randomizing the main pieces had long been known as Shuffle Chess; however, Chess960 introduces restrictions on the randomization, "preserving the dynamic nature of the game by retaining bishops of opposite colours for each player and the right to castle for both sides".[4]The result is 960 unique possible starting positions.