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Position #501

One of the 960 Fischer random starting positions. Pawns stay put; the back rank is shuffled so the bishops sit on opposite colours and the king stands between the rooks.

CHESS960 · RQBBNKNRSetting up the rules…

Setting up the rules…

CW/MOVES

No moves yet. Click or drag a piece.

CW/ENGINE

white

black

Speed

Set a side to Jev to see how it weighs its moves.

CW/POSITION501 / 959

Pieces

CW/SETUPRQBBNKNR

Where each piece goes
PieceWhiteBlack
Rooka1a8
Queenb1b8
Bishopc1c8
Bishopd1d8
Knighte1e8
Kingf1f8
Knightg1g8
Rookh1h8

CW/EXPORT

Back rank
RQBBNKNR
FEN
rqbbnknr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQBBNKNR w KQkq - 0 1

Piece sets by Armando H. Marroquín, Utrecht by Hans L. Bodlaender, from Eric Bentzen’s En Passant collection (more on the fonts). Rules by chessops, by Niklas Fiekas, the library behind Lichess, licensed under the GPL-3.0, and so is this experiment’s source.