> More light would be shed on this question if the two leading machine-learning chess programs, AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero, were taught to play with our pr

> More light would be shed on this question if the two leading machine-learning chess programs, AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero, were taught to play with our proposed change in the order of the 3rd and 4th moves from White-Black to Black-White Also, there has been plenty of exploration around this in the recent past. "No-castling chess" was briefly popular in 2020 following some investigations by DeepMind and Vladimir Kramnik that found that training AlphaZero from scratch to play this led to more exciting games. [0] They didn't try this specific rule, or didn't publicize their results if they did. It's too different from chess to be of intrinsic interest to serious chess players. Maybe it's interesting as a variant in its own right! But this is the worst imaginable investigation of whether that's true. [0] https://www.chess.com/article/view/no-castling-chess-kramnik-alphazero https://www.chess.com/article/view/no-castling-chess-kramnik...