On more than two occassions in 'Chess960', I have tried
playing a "Kings Indian" setup as "black," and got 'burned'
in the process; apparently because, leaving aside the fact
that the black "King-bishop" was already conveniently pre-
placed on the "h8-diagonal," the fact that I chose to play
in a Non-symetrical way {ie. Not copying "white's" opening
moves} does Not, in more than a few cases, lead to the same
type of positional-equality that one finds in regular chess!
 
In a recent game against the "IsraeliProgram" {who had "white"}
my 'deeper-ply-seeing' opponent started out with the anti-posit-
ional pawn move of 1.b4; and as the game played out, with myself
following the "King's Indian" mainline strategy of not surrender-
ing the center with e5xd4, due to the different {albeit symetrical}
starting positions of our pieces, it wasn't long before I had
to trade my rook for his centralized "d4" knight, to delay my
opponent's position from becoming even more dominating!
 
Since I would imagine that your average moderately chess-savvy
person would not have seen the inadvisibility of playing the
'seemingly logical' "King's Indian Defense" as a response to our
particular opening setup in advance; hindsight tells me, that short
of being able to calculate many moves in advance {before the game
even started!} I, or most anyone, would've faired better, had I
mimicked my opponent's first several opening moves!

Game Details
White: IsraeliProgram (1728) Start Time: 03:08:59 UTC
Black: gammaburst (1663) End Time: 03:27:28 UTC
Game: Live Chess960 Duration: 0:18:29
Speed: 30/15 Moves: 20
Result: 1-0 (Resigns)
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[Event "Live Game"] [Site "Caissa's Web"] [Date "2007.06.02"] [White "IsraeliProgram"] [Black "gammaburst"] [Result "1-0"] [TimeControl "30/900"] [WhiteELO "1728"] [BlackELO "1663"] [Variant "Chess960"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "bqnrkbrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BQNRKBRN w KQkq - 0 1"] 1. b4 g6 2. e3 Bg7 3. Bxg7 Rxg7 4. Be2 b6 5. O-O d6 6. c4 e5 7. d4 Ne7 8. Ng3 f5 9. Qa1 Nf7 10. Nd3 c6 11. dxe5 dxe5 12. f4 Rg8 13. fxe5 Rxd3 14. Rxd3 Nxe5 15. Rd2 Nc8 16. Nxf5 gxf5 17. Rxf5 Nd7 18. Bh5+ Kd8 19. Qf6+ Kc7 20. Qe6 Rd8