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We fixed the castling issue with Chess 744. Thoughts? https://sites.google.com/view/chess-744/todays-744-game
Yes, that appears to be another good solution to the castling trickiness! And probably how you assume castling works in Chess960 if you weren't given the rules.
The idea of an asymmetric Chess starting position is very interesting, although it does introduce more risk of one side starting with a big advantage (perhaps this has been analyzed). I also like that in this variant, castling works like normal -- that is one of the most unintuitive aspects of Chess960.
One option is bidding with points: player A looks at the position and bids X Or, more simply, player A is shown N random positions, picks one of them and lets player B pick the color.
The other idea works but is essentially just discarding all of the lopsided starting positions, in which case they might as well not be in the game.