Transcendental Chess of one side can be any of 4²×6!÷2² = 2880. There is no castling. On the first turn a player, instead of making a move, can transpose any of two pieces on the back row. In Chess960 the back rows are mirror images, but in Transcendental Chess the setup of black and white is different 2879 out of every 2880 times (there being a 1–in–2880 chance that both sides will draw the same setup). This can create inequalities in the position. One way to equalize these inequalities is to play a couplet: the players play two games, one each as
Touch-move rule 5...Be7 in reply to 5.d4, not noticing that White actually played 5.d3 attacking his knight. Now compelled to move the bishop, he would lose the knight without compensation, so resigned immediately . If a player wishes to adjust the pieces on their squares without being required to move or capture the piece, the player can announce "j’adoube" (, "I adjust"), or words to that effect in other languages. "J’adoube" is internationally recognised by chess players as announcing the intent to make incidental contact with their pieces. The phrase is used to give warning from a player to their opponent that