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Position #509

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 · RQNBKNBRSetting 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/POSITION509 / 959

Pieces

CW/SETUPRQNBKNBR

Where each piece goes
PieceWhiteBlack
Rooka1a8
Queenb1b8
Knightc1c8
Bishopd1d8
Kinge1e8
Knightf1f8
Bishopg1g8
Rookh1h8

CW/EXPORT

Back rank
RQNBKNBR
FEN
rqnbknbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQNBKNBR 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.