jp wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:21 am
In positions where the K and R are not on traditional positions, it is an obvious generalization.
It's not, I already brought up position 524 where K and Q swap places:
[d]rnbkqbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBKQBNR w - -
On this one when castling to the left, the King moves only 1 square, but when castling to the right, the King moves 3 squares. Why is this? Because in position 518 those are their landing squares? But 518 is just some random number.
It seems a better generalization would have been to just have the king move 2 squares towards the rook, then we can drop half the 960 positions because they're identical to their mirrored twins and their games are indistinguishable from the other ones when players don't castle.
Now, I want you to forget about who's saying this so you drop your biases and prejudices against me, and tackle this argument directly, saying "your argument is bogus" (without explaining why) or "you just don't like Chess960 and this is emotional" are just fallacious.