whats mean chess960?

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Avatar of renkumar

what different to standard chess

Avatar of pjr2468

play it and you'll find out! all the pieces are jumbled up apart from the pawns

Avatar of Cubetacular

Yeah the pieces on the back rank are mixed up at the start of the game. There are 960 possible starting positions hence why it is called chess 960. Other than that it is the same as regular chess.

Avatar of DanielDey

how do they calculate 960 different starting positions?

Avatar of David

They just pick a random one of the 960 possible.