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Position #531

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 · BRNKQNRB

Pieces

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Setting up the rules…

CW/ENGINE

white

black

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

Classic
Where each piece goes
PieceWhiteBlack
Bishopa1a8
Rookb1b8
Knightc1c8
Kingd1d8
Queene1e8
Knightf1f8
Rookg1g8
Bishoph1h8
Back rank
BRNKQNRB
FEN
brnkqnrb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRNKQNRB 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.