Chess960@Home Project

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Contents 1 Project Idea 2 Project Team 3 Project Finances 4 Active BOINC Projects

[edit] Project Idea

Chess960 is a young innovative chess variant. In Chess960, just before the start of every game, the initial Chess Board Configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly, that means that the king, the queen, the rook, the bishop and the knight are not necessarily placed on the same home squares as in classical chess. Since a few years ago there are World Championships taking place in "Chess Classic Mainz" event in August every year. GM Peter Svidler is the current Champion. In this project we try to combine Chess960 and the idea of distributed computing. With this platform, we want to perform these computationally intensive tasks. With it we want to give this chess variant some basics in theory of the game. We know the fascination of this variant is with the incredible number of variations. That will not change with this project but some guidelines seems to be useful in each starting position.

[edit] Project Team

The project team is still not complete. We are searching for volunteers in the area of Unix system administration and C / C++ programming. An author of a chess engine would be great.

[edit] Project Finances

This project is a Non-commercial Project. All payments from advertising and possible donations will be used only to finance the project. All played games will be published in a database to replay on line.

[edit] Active BOINC Projects

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