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Castling in Chess 960. New castling rules for Fischer Random Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Sun, Mar 26, 2006 12:34 AM UTC:
Hi Matthew,

Chess960 preserves the genuine asymmetrie of Chess, thus its castling
rules make sense, overmore thus becoming also a superset to traditional
chess.

But there is Chess480 with 'modern' castling (King makes two steps if
possible). But Chess480 with 'symmetric' castling, as you proposed, is
not yet a common variant.

Nevertheless you could play all those three variants at the SMIRF chess
engine and GUI. This is also true for the 10x8 board geometry.

http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachsmirf_e.html