To, Admin. Brian, Perhaps you're more familiar than I, in
how susceptible "Chess-960" is to cheating by commercially
available software..and/or, a computer.
 
..Depending on how adept the non-human programs are, at
'960'..my latest suggestion of awarding an annual one or
two-year, "Caissa's Web" membership to the highest rated
'960' human player {and current member} either does, or
does not make sense{?!}.. since regretably, the 'honor-
system' of not cheating in most online games, is, 'imho'..
unenforceable; computer-move "tracking"-systems, aside.
 
P.s. The fact that I beat "Rasputin" {rated 1900, plus} as
'black'.. in a mere 22 moves earlier tonight {under another
'handle'}, when 'white' took what turned out to be a 'poisoned'
g-pawn, made me think that either you purchased an inferior
"Chess-960" program, or perhaps the skill-level amongst all
programs at that chess-variant, is in an early.. partially
mistake-prone phase{!?}

Programs tailored to play Chess960 will beat human players just like at regular chess.

..Wouldn't you know it.. an inadequate answer..{as if I didn't
already know that}, by a person to whom the question wasn't
addressed to!.. Such is life.. Yeesh!

gammaburst, what encourages you to be a member of this site?

"ectopia": Why do you ask? ..Was it because I unintentionally
somehow 'got-your-goat'?!
..Incidentally, though my reasons for being here roughly balance
between liking to play online-chess, and bringing forth various
views {including my own} on the 'BBs'; something 'tells me' that
you asked that question as a way of deflecting some unwanted {by
you} attention to your own last reply, which at least arguably..
made You look like you weren't 'paying all-that-much-attention',
both to the question itself, plus, whom it was addressed to.
 
..Try Not to be offended, since No {personal} offence was intended!

The Caissa computer players are configured to be relatively easy to beat, we might change this in the future. I think Rasputin is even weaker than AgentSmith, so you might try playing a Chess960 against AgentSmith instead. Since it is generally agreed that the best chess computers can now beat a human consistently, some might see Chess960 as a way to add more of a human element, as the computers do not have the luxury of an opening book in Chess960. If a computer is to make a mistake it would probably be in the opening and Chess960 helps the human side in that respect.