How common are draws in Chess960?

Just curious. Does anyone know?

I love traditional chess, but if 960 has far fewer draws, maybe Fischer had a point. . .

Aronian lost to Nakamura in a dozen moves or so in 960 during their chess.com blitz battle.  A similar thing happened to Carlsen against Naka.  When players are forced to think for themselves the game is WAAAAAAY more interesting.  Not saying 960 is the only answer but hopefully people start trending toward new chess variants because traditional chess, as much as I love it, is getting pretty stale.  Fischer definitely had a point, people are just stubborn and don't want to admit it.

Maybe people will solve the 6719 openings it has to offer, I dunno

But to be honest, I think the whole game will be based upon who is the better player and without any other factor, it would be kinda boring.

You mean, Bronstein had a point.

Hmm, interesting. So you're saying that since "the better man" always wins, that would make it boring?

I don't think I've had a draw yet in like the 30 live 960 games I've played - either win or lose (or time my opponent's out ). They were all 3 minutes though. 

I actually find that, with good players, 960 quickly converges to "regular" chess - both sides will simply optimize their piece activity in accordance to the pawn structures, and these configurations are all typically seen in some opening in normal chess. 

If you want to see some great 960 games, check out the games of "NoWuss2", who I think almost exclusively plays 960.

yeah, I found the same thing, the endgame in 960 is usually not distinguishable from a regular chess game....and the openings can't be memorized....I like it, as an endgame player, I seem to usually have an advantage, may end up being my specialty, but need to play more games to see.

My opinion about 960 is that :

It's more of a tactical game and less of a strategy, more like Xiangqi (chinese chess). Overall I like it, but still I prefer original.

Like in any war you need to think first, plan, strategize and only then attack, 960 and Xiangqi more of its happened your enemies is here now, fight!

Also draws are important, as in any fight or war you can resolve conflict without entering in it, that's the beauty of classical chess.

This gives me the opportunity to share this

My win against the FM in 960, when he got a probably winning endgame, but blundered a fork in time pressure. Highly flawed game though, imo. 

You beat the world #1 in his specialty, awesome! 

3 minute game, was it?

That's crazy!

I wouldn't say he's #1 - maybe #1 for the highly established live960 players (eg players who've played enough live 960 games to not have an inflated rating - which I currently do have for sure). Pretty sure Hikaru is world #1 in 960 in terms of skill. 

I'm just happy a beat an FM who specializes in 960 though! 

All you have to do in 3+0 960 is take hanging pieces... lol 

The regular chess the draw rate is a strong function of ELO, but in reviewing a million games of top computer engines they found a draw rate of 28.8%. By comparison, for Chess960 it was 21.9%. However, this is for elos above 4000 or so.  For normal people, this small difference would translate to a very low draw rate in Chess960 depending on how much time is available. http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404FRC/rating_list_all.html