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Any Benefit of a brand new player starting with Chess960 over standard chess?

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Elderly-Woman

As in if you were a brand-new player with no experience is there any benefit to starting with Chess960?

Eloxadrez

I think you should learn the basics of normal chess first. Variants can be confusing. Especially when you are new to chess.

DejarikDreams

The only difference between regular chess and 960 is that 960 throws the opening library out the While your other chess skills might improve, your knowledge of openings might fall behind.

FajarIbad

Go for GothamChess tutorials! He really helps me a lot!! :)

GooseChess

Honestly I think it's fine. Brand new players never properly learn (and never should bother learning) theory anyways, and if you ever go to normal chess the opening difference won't be any different than say someone switching from e4 to d4.