Oh, yes, there's a typo. Sorry!
My p.4 comment does not suffer from that typo:
Chess480 castling (K moves two squares) also seems a reasonable generalization, but some people don't like the K moving to the centre from e.g. g1 to e1.
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Oh, yes, there's a typo. Sorry!
Your "Millennium-Bug argument" was bogus, and I did explain why. That does not logically imply that all of your arguments, including unstated future ones, must also be bogus.
All you're saying, in an extremely longwinded way, is that there is only one allowed starting position in traditional chess. We already know that!!
If that was my argument I'd be contradicting myself, I have already said that there are 48 positions out of the 960 that are also chess, and that if Chess960 got rid of retarded castling all the others would be as well (because, you see, players can move their pieces and get rid of castling and reach a starting position without castling and it never stops being chess.) Except that half of them would just be the others mirrored, so that's why I suggested that for those you can just mirror one of the sides (so Kings face enemy Queens) and you're back to 960 positions that are chess.
Okay: Your argument is really just saying that 912 initial conditions are in your words "illegal" in traditional chess.
Nope, because this isn't about the starting positions, as I've said also, as soon as both players get rid of retarded castling (i.e. after they have moved both rooks or their king) the game is back to being chess, when I suggested that those positions should just disallow castling the only reason was for them to start as chess from the get-go.