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Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by atdt on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:44PM (#25483925)
Fischer Random Chess (aka Chess960) is meant to address exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess

It has a large online following.

Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by esrauch on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:52PM (#25483961)
It doesn't seem to be that large of an online following: it's supported on the main chess sites but not as one of the top default modes.