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Can the standard chess starting position be selected in Chess 960?

The answer is Yes! The standard starting position for Chess is one of the 960 possibilities in Chess960!

It happened in a game today, and out of the 4440 Chess960 games on PlayStrategy it has been selected on 4 occasions (which is about what you would expect as 4440/960 = 4.625).

Also notably, the standard Chess starting position was selected twice in the 2024 MSO Chess 960 tournament (out of 138 games): playstrategy.org/swiss/XFZGdmy3

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