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Topic: Castling in Chess-960 games
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It's quite easy to program castling in Chess 960. Why is this still not implemented?
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See this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_960
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Wikipedia does not explain why Queen Alice does not have castling in Chess 960.
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LOL ... you must not be a programmer, ernesto_che. 
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Castling in Chess960 is not significantly harder to program than regular castling. The only difficulty is that, if the king is on the b, d or f file and is moved to the c, c or g file, respectively, the program may have to ask the user if they're castling.
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It is significantly more costly in terms of code lines. There are times that pieces don't even move. You have gone from two almost identical possible moves to a large number of moves with significant variety. Especially when code lines are at a premium such as in this case, the overhead needs to be factored in. For stand-alone software, it is reasonably trivial.
Is Chess960 even supported on this site??? 
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