Position #505
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.
Setting up the rules…
white
black
Set a side to Jev to see how it weighs its moves.
| Piece | White | Black | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rook | a1 | a8 | |
| Queen | b1 | b8 | |
| Knight | c1 | c8 | |
| Bishop | d1 | d8 | |
| Bishop | e1 | e8 | |
| King | f1 | f8 | |
| Knight | g1 | g8 | |
| Rook | h1 | h8 |
- Back rank
RQNBBKNR
- FEN
rqnbbknr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQNBBKNR 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.