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'''Chess960@home''' (also styled '''Chess960athome''') was a [[BOINC]] volunteer computing project that studied [[wikipedia:Chess960|Chess960]], also known as Fischer Random Chess, a chess variant invented by former world chess champion [[wikipedia:Bobby Fischer|Bobby Fischer]]. Rather than searching for a scientific result in the physical sciences, Chess960@home asked volunteers' idle computers to play out and record large numbers of Chess960 games, with the stated goal of assembling a database large enough to begin identifying sound opening moves for a game whose starting position is chosen at random from 960 possibilities.<ref name="boincitaly">{{Cite web |title=Chess960@home |url=https://www.boincitaly.org/progetti/progetti-boinc/progetti-chiusi-o-terminati/chess960home.html?showall=1 |website=BOINC.Italy |access-date=19 July 2026}}</ref><ref name="oldprojects">{{Cite web |title=old_projects.inc |url=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-site/blob/master/old_projects.inc |website=BOINC/boinc-site, GitHub |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=19 July 2026}}</ref> | '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090328144612/https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960@home]''' (also styled '''Chess960athome''') was a [[BOINC]] volunteer computing project that studied [[wikipedia:Chess960|Chess960]], also known as Fischer Random Chess, a chess variant invented by former world chess champion [[wikipedia:Bobby Fischer|Bobby Fischer]]. Rather than searching for a scientific result in the physical sciences, Chess960@home asked volunteers' idle computers to play out and record large numbers of Chess960 games, with the stated goal of assembling a database large enough to begin identifying sound opening moves for a game whose starting position is chosen at random from 960 possibilities.<ref name="boincitaly">{{Cite web |title=Chess960@home |url=https://www.boincitaly.org/progetti/progetti-boinc/progetti-chiusi-o-terminati/chess960home.html?showall=1 |website=BOINC.Italy |access-date=19 July 2026}}</ref><ref name="oldprojects">{{Cite web |title=old_projects.inc |url=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-site/blob/master/old_projects.inc |website=BOINC/boinc-site, GitHub |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=19 July 2026}}</ref> | ||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
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=== Relationship to a later, unrelated project === | === Relationship to a later, unrelated project === | ||
Chess960@home should not be confused with a later, independently created BOINC project also concerned with chess, Chess@Home (chess.qugate.org), which aimed to construct a chess-position classifier. When the newer project was announced in 2014, a BOINCstats forum participant asked whether it had any connection to "the old Chess960@Home"; the project's founder confirmed it did not, and that permission to use a similar name had been separately sought.<ref name="chessathome">{{Cite web |title=Forum::New projects::Chess@Home |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/11/9016,1 |website=BOINCstats/BAM! |access-date=19 July 2026}}</ref> | Chess960@home should not be confused with a later, independently created BOINC project also concerned with chess, [[Chess@Home]] (chess.qugate.org), which aimed to construct a chess-position classifier. When the newer project was announced in 2014, a BOINCstats forum participant asked whether it had any connection to "the old Chess960@Home"; the project's founder confirmed it did not, and that permission to use a similar name had been separately sought.<ref name="chessathome">{{Cite web |title=Forum::New projects::Chess@Home |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/11/9016,1 |website=BOINCstats/BAM! |access-date=19 July 2026}}</ref> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||