Chess 960² (feature request)

White & black's back ranks are both randomised independently. I've played around a bit with evals (a very very small subset of the 921600 starting positions) and white is almost always <= +.5.

Q. What if the RNG choosing a starting position where white is +.9?

A. Either i) Tough. This happens very rarely & it happens randomly hence not biased in favour of one player or another. Or ii) Lichess's server selected the starting position & runs a quick eval, choosing a new starting position if either player's eval is > +.5

Q. Why do you need this? Isn't Chess 960 enough?

A. I don't need it. I would like it. I think it would add strategic problems that aren't available in 960 & would like to try it out.

Funny idea! Another way to cope with eventually unequal start position is playing 2 games and change side.

An idea I had was to say the players must play a two game simultaneous match against each other where each guy plays one white and one black but there was a couple of problems

i) This seems hard to implement on a mobile phone
ii) What is to stop the weaker of the two players imitating every move the stronger of the two players makes hence ending with two identical matches?

Maybe there's still a way to make this an option but probably simpler just to add it as an option as outlined in my post.

I don't get argument ii att all. That would also apply to normal chess if things was like that. If you play one white and one black against Magnus Carlsen you wouldn't beat him with imitating every move he makes in the first games, for the reason that it requires him to also imitate your moves which isn't likely.

Here's what I'm thinking. You are playing white at, say, board 2. You wait for Magnus to play e4 at board 1, and then you play e4 at board 2. And so on.

Oh! I meant you play 2 games but not simultaneously. First one and then another with reversed colors. Lke a match with 2 rounds.