Shuffle Chess

With File arrow New - Shuffle Chess you start a new Shuffle chess game.

The starting position is changed randomly, though the position of the pawns is the same as in standard chess. Two bishops of different colours are also required.

Example of a Shuffle Chess position:

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Shuffle chess has the advantage of making specialised opening knowledge worthless. From the first move on the players have to think on their own now. Tactical problems often occur in the very first moves. So be careful against the chess engines!

Because Shuffle chess is played with a different starting position, the engines have to support this. WinBoard engines need to support the edit mode, UCI-engines the "startpos FEN" command.

Shuffle Chess doesn't know about castling, Chess 960 does.

You can also choose in Set up a position if you would like to play a Chess 960 or Shuffle Chess game.