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Chess-960.org presents a new project idea: "Chess960@home"

Project idea
Chess960 is a young innovative chess variant. In Chess960, just before the start of every game, the initial 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 there are World Championsships 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 the BOINC software framework from the University of Berkeley exists a platform we want to use in this project to perform these computing intensive tasks. With it we want to give this chess variant some basics in theory of this game. We know the fascination of this chess variant is the incredible amount of variations. That will not change with this project but some guidelines seems to be useful in each starting position.

Registration for Alpha Phase
For the Alpha Phase of this project we are searching for experienced volunteers which currently use the BOINC client for other projects. In this phase we have a limit of 200 volunteers. If you are interested in to take part please register here. We won't send you any confirmation mail yet. At the moment we're just trying to find out how many volunteer alpha-testers are interested in this project. The registered data will be kept and we will return to it when the project starts. Thank you for your patience.

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.

Project finances
This project is a non commercial project. All payments from advertisements and possible donations will be used only to finance the project.