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Placement Chess960. chess960 with piece placement by players and orthodox castling. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Piotr Smagacz wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2023 05:03 PM UTC:

My submission is ready


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2023 07:55 PM UTC:

Chess960 is not so old that it is appropriate to call another game Modern Chess960. Try to find a more fitting name that actually captures the difference between your game and Bobby Fischer's.


💡📝Piotr Smagacz wrote on Sat, Apr 8, 2023 08:04 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Fri Apr 7 07:55 PM:

I have changed the name of the game to "Allocate Chess960". I hope it will be ok


H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Apr 8, 2023 09:36 AM UTC in reply to Piotr Smagacz from 08:04 AM:

Why not 'Placement Chess 960'? There already exists a Placement Chess, which is very similar except that the placement rules are so restricted that only 20 start positions can result.


💡📝Piotr Smagacz wrote on Sat, Apr 8, 2023 11:55 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 09:36 AM:

I have changed the game to "Placement Chess960", I think it's ok


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 9, 2023 02:14 AM UTC:

I did some more digging into games like this, and I found Baseline chess with Fischer rules. So, this is not a new idea.


H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Apr 9, 2023 07:04 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:14 AM:

It definitely is not new enough to warrant a separate article. One difference seems to be that in Basline Chess the setup is not necessarily symmetric. And the castling rule here is slightly different. I don't consider the latter an improvement. (But the name Placement Chess 960 is.)


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