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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Oct 18, 2005 05:12 PM UTC:

CHESS960 top ratings:

   1     Svidler,Peter                      2755
   2     Aronian,Levon                      2752
   3     Bacrot,Etienne                     2746
   4     Leko,Peter                         2735
   5     Adams,Michael                      2735
   6     Shirov,Alexey                      2723
   7     Morozevich,Alexander               2719
   8     Ponomariov,Ruslan                  2716
   9     Dreev,Alexey                       2711
  10     Sokolov,Ivan                       2687
  11     Grischuk,Alexander                 2682
  12     Kobalija,Mihail                    2679
  13     Almasi,Zoltan                      2676
  14     Jussupow,Artur                     2670
  15     Zvjaginsev,Vadim                   2670
  16     Rublevsky,Sergei                   2667
  17     Landa,Konstantin                   2660
  18     Motylev,Alexander                  2657
  19     Sasikiran,Krishnan                 2656
  20     Nielsen,Peter-Heine                2652
  21     Bologan,Victor                     2650
  22     McShane,Luke-James                 2645
  23     Gurevich,Mikhail                   2643
  24     Sargissian,Gabriel                 2635
  25     Milov,Vadim                        2632
  26     Harikrishna,Pentela                2628
  27     Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter             2626
  28     Gyimesi,Zoltan                     2625
  29     Vallejo Pons,Francisco             2624
  30     Sutovsky,Emil                      2622

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Chess480. Fischer Random Chess with orthodox castling rules. (8x8, Cells: 64)

Gene Milener wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2006 10:41 PM UTC:

[1]
Chess players interested in ches480 or chess960 (a.k.a. Fischer Random
Chess, FRC) may be interested to hear that a major new chess960 book has
been published (Jan 2006).  Title is:

'Play Stronger Chess by Examining Chess960:
Usable Strategies of Fischer Random Chess Discovered'

(ISBN 0-9774521-0-7)

Searching in Amazon.com or Google.com will find the book.

Or visit http://CastleLong.com/


[2]
I suspect that chess480, with its castling rule having the King move two
squares instead of to the traditional squares c1 or g1, would lead to
LESS
OPPOSITE WING castling games than would chess960/FRC.
Thus I suspect the draw rate would be higher in chess480 than in
chess960.
Generally a higher draw rate is bad.

In my chess960 book I describe a tweak of the chess960 castling rule,
designed to increase the rate of opposite wing castling.  Statistics show
that the draw rate is lower when the two players castle to opposite
wings.
 Opposite wing castling is almost rare in traditional 'chess1', which
may
be considered a flaw in the engineering of the rules (choices made when
chess1 was invented in the 1400's).  Basically, my rule would give the
second player to castle more freedom to choose the destination square of
his castling king, if but only if he castles to the opposite wing.


Thank you.
Gene Milener

Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Sun, Feb 12, 2006 04:00 PM UTC:

I am just about to implement Chess480 in my SMIRF program. SMIRF will then randomly select positions from Chess960, but only those, where the white king is right sided to the queen. Thus the redundant half of mirrored starting arrays is filtered out. To distinguish its FEN, a preceding 'm' is placed immediately before the castling tags block, as specified in current X-FEN.

💡📝John Lewis wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 01:14 PM UTC:

I'd prefer to continue to use both branches, as variety is part of the goal in this type of variant. Being human we may see something in one version that we might miss in it's reflection.

Austin Lockwood wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 08:28 AM UTC:

Reinhard, we have used your numbering scheme to identify Chess480 starting
arrays (since these are identical to Chess960 positions) - I hope this is
OK with you?

Austin

Thomas McElmurry wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 07:40 AM UTC:

Regarding the questions about which 480 positions should be used:

Rather than thinking of 2 sets of 480 positions, perhaps it's better to think of 480 sets of 2 positions. The two positions in each set are related by left-right reflection, and have equivalent strategy trees.

I agree with John that it's aesthetically preferable to play all 960 positions, but if you want to choose just one from each pair, how about the one where the Queen is to the left of the King in White's starting position?

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