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a chess variant invented by former [|World Chess Champion] [|Bobby Fischer], introduced on June 19, 1996 in [|Buenos Aires], [|Argentina]. Randomizing the pieces on its back rank has been known as //Shuffle Chess//, but Chess960 introduces rules so that castling options are retained in all starting positions, one player's bishops must start on opposite-color squares, and the king must start on a square between the rooks, resulting in 960 unique positions, while the classical initial position is one of them. Chess960 practically handicaps the application of [|opening theory] in classical chess with the memorization of opening moves, both for human as well for chess programs.
 * Chess960**, (or Fischer Random Chess)

=See also=
 * Chess960 Engines
 * Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship

=Publications=
 * Reinhard Scharnagl (**2004**). //[|Fischer-Random-Schach: (FRC/Chess 960)]//. Books on Demand, ISBN: 3833413220, 9783833413223 (German)

=Forum Posts=

2005 ...

 * [|Chess960 Nullmove castling] by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, August 01, 2005
 * [|Chess960: Arena castle vs X-FEN castle] by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, November 05, 2005
 * [|Chess960 in Fritz9GUI and Winboard_frc] by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, November 24, 2005
 * [|supporting FRC questions] by Uri Blass, Winboard Forum, September 13, 2006

2010 ...

 * [|FRC / Chess960 Engine with "Divided" Command] by Steve Maughan, CCC, December 02, 2014 » Perft

2015 ...

 * [|Some Chess960/FRC positions to be confirmed] by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, February 09, 2015 » Perft Results

=External Links=
 * [|Chess960 from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess960 starting position from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess960 numbering scheme from Wikipedia]
 * [|Fischer Random Chess]
 * [|The birth of Fischer Random Chess] by Eric van Reem
 * [|Fischer Random Chess (Chess960)] by [|David A. Wheeler]
 * [|CCRL 40/4 FRC - Index] » CCRL
 * [|Chess960 League « Computer Chess News] by Alexander Schmidt

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