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Castling in Chess 960. New castling rules for Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Matthew Petersman wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 04:04 PM UTC:
I enjoy the Chess960 variant.  I think it is good for Chess and I believe
some form of it will be the dominant form of Chess in the future.  

I would like to propose a slight change to this variant.  For now, I'm
going to call it Chess960bg or Chess480bg.  'bg' referring to what file
the king can castle to.  It's exactly like Chess960 (FRC), but the
castling rule is slightly modified...

(1')The king moves to the b-file and the a-side rook moves to the
c-file,
or the king moves to the g-file and the h-side rook moves to the f-file. 


(The FIDE castling rules 2-4 you state below still apply of course.)

I believe this could result in more opposite side castling, since the
king
would be the same distance from the center, regardless of which side he
castles to.  This could lead to less draws.  I also believe this would
make it simpler to teach castling in Chess960 to people not familiar with
Chess since the end result of castling is symmetrical.  

I'm curious what others think.