Why do they use 958 positions and not 959? As a friend of mine pointed out, reversing the king and the queen changes the position due to castling asymmetry.
@anishgiri Yes. And the 960th position could be standard position no-castling chess.
@clubelo That breaks the general rules of the 960 game. You can keep standard position in, just to play standard chess. It makes some sense, since players will come less prepared than for the usual classical game.
@anishgiri Way too serious of a chess tweet sir. Unfollowed.
@anishgiri Also… it would be interesting to see players faces whenever they got the standard position.
@anishgiri I had no idea you counted Jan as a friend. :-)
@anishgiri Are you talking about chess♟️😳
@anishgiri I always hoped that there was a chance to find yourself in the standard position or a reflection of the standard position when playing chess 960... That's too bad.
@anishgiri Yesterday you posted a sensitive tweet & today a informative one looks like we have lost the Funny Anish 😭
@anishgiri Really! 958 is not enough craziness?
@anishgiri I need tweets like this to remember that you are actually a chess player and not some random Internet troll.
@anishgiri Good point
@anishgiri Go to sleep Amish, chill out dude.
@anishgiri Friend — @viditchess 🙌
@anishgiri Can you explain ? Is not just classical with oposite colors?
@anishgiri Indeed
@anishgiri then it would be 962, as both black and white can have opposites reversed
@anishgiri Pawn placement!

