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
Kung-Fu Chess his available pieces at any given moment. Technically speaking, a player can only order one move of an available piece at a time, and the order is executed immediately. After a piece was moved, it is delayed (being unable to move) for a short constant and predefined amount of time before it can be moved again. The movement of the pieces from one position to another is not immediate but also has its own short duration, leading to a typical situation where many pieces on the board are on a move in the same time. Timing is a crucial aspect