Stockfish 15.1

If black and white had different permutations of the back row, you could find more balanced starting positions. Adopt more flexible starting conditions in the computer chess age.

> Then every setup plays against every other one and earns an honest score.

...as opposed to a dishonest score?

AI written, and makes no sense it how the piece flows.

I don’t even know what to do about LLM authored articles. Do the prompt engineers hitting enter understand it’s difficult to read and off putting? Could HN use a secondary AI tag/flag?

Sadly I think it’ll be just a dead, poorly written internet moving forward.

Maybe the article is interesting. I don’t know. It’s exhausting to read.

Interesting topic but they couldn't be bothered to spend time writing about it, shame.

Claude slop

"The caveats, which are the honest place to start" UGH

If you want to read something interesting and edifying about chess960, the classical starting position, and other interesting starting positions, might I recommend instead this wonderful paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14319