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Re:Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Champi... by avadodin on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:42PM (#47041350)
It goes to show my expertise in chess that I watched a whole encounter and it looked exactly the same as regular chess with castling and all.

I don't know if I would call the positions symmetrical, though, they seem mirrored(I just checked and regular chess is mirrored as well).

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Re:Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Champi... by OJFord on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:01AM (#47045600)
I've only had the one coffee, but surely mirroring is symmetry in the plane of the mirror? Anyway, yes, that's what I meant - you have the same order each, so neither disadvantaged, it's just not the usual order.
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