Transcendentaux failures
The transcendentaux failures are a nonorthodoxe alternative set of failures, invented in 1978 by Maxwell Laurent. The principle is about the same one as in the alternative Fischer Random Chess, with the difference in particular of the not-symmetry of the initial positions of each camp In the transcendantaux failures the starting positions of the parts on the first and eighth lines are by chance given, with the restriction that the insane ones are on boxes of opposite colors. There are 8.294.400 possible positions on the whole in this alternative (against 960 in the alternative of the random failures Fischer), because of the fact that the king must be located between the turns: in the transcendantaux failures there is not such a rule, so that the king can be on any box of the first line at the beginning. Also, there is no castling. Moreover, each player can, for its first blow, to invert two parts (instead of playing).
While as Fischer Random Chess the two camps have a symmetrical position, there is 1 here chance out of 2880 that the blacks and the white have the same starting position. This can create inequalities in position. To balance imbalances inherent in such a system, the players can agree to exploit a part with the position of the blacks and the other with that of the white, the same initial position; in which case a player can gain by gaining a part plus null at least.
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