Ratings of Standard and Chess960 mixed

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I have a repro of mixed rankings between 960 and traditional chess.

1. I recently played my first 960 game (and won... yeah!).Scores were 960 baseline and behaved as expected. http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=29284661

2. I created new game "a 'real' rematch' with same player, and selected traditional chess under advanced options. http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=29336534
BUG#1: Traditional game has 960 layout. The 960 game icon does not appear before the game title and both our traditional ranks are displayed.

BUG#2: The 960 initial layout is identical to my previous 960 game positions. While possible there should be 1 in 960 chance of back-to-back identical positions.

3. My opponent created a new 960 game as a rematch. http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=29336522
BUG#2: 960 layout is identical to previous 960 game positions. While possible there should be 1 in 960 chance of back-to-back identical positions.

Now I might be lucky enough to get identical 960 layout once... but twice in a row for two different people (one for me, one for my opponet) is really too much to believe. Therefore I believe there are some 960 bugs to be investigated.

ACTION ITEM: Anyone else that has game examples of mixed rankings should post a reply on this thread and include the GameID impacted.

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I think the reason it did the exact board again was because you clicked rematch...so you're doing a rematch of the same board position.  It should have stayed as a 960 game though.

AHA! Rematch keeping same layout is a good idea. I'm not sure how to best message this in the UI for creating a new game. Perhaps by adding a note just below Rematch button/dropdown (only for a Chess960 game): "*Rematch in Chess960 will repeat same board layout."

I think the same position for rematch should be optional, I can see that sometimes you would want to replay the same position, but the whole point of 960 for me is that it's differnt everytime.

And OP, if you have a hard time getting a matchup, challenge me anytime