Chess960 help

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10th June 2009, 11:01am
#1
by Baseballfan
Durham, North Carolina United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1872

Hi,

As many of you know, those of us on the staff here actually enjoy chess. We all play it (though some more than others), and we even study it in the five minutes each day we have to ourselves. :-)  For me, I'm a fan of Chess960 (also known sometimes as Fischer Random), and I'm working on a personal project involving chess960 openings (no details yet, maybe more on that later). But I was wondering if I could get some help from this fine community for my project. What I need is the FEN strings of all 960 opening chess960 positions. Does anyone know where these can be found? If you don't know what FEN strings are, they are a way of expressing the current board position so that a computer can read it. You can find more about those here

Yes, I know that these can be done by hand, but I'm REALLY trying to avoid that, so I was wondeirng if anyone knew where they might be, or if someone already had them. If you could either send me a link to them or e-mail them to me ( joshk <AT> chess <DOT> com) I would be eternally grateful to you.

10th June 2009, 11:07am
#2
by TheGrobe
Calgary Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 4617

Try here:

http://www.mark-weeks.com/cfaa/chess960/c960strt.htm

There's a zip file that contains a pipe-delimited table of all starting positions and their corresponding FEN strings.

10th June 2009, 11:15am
#3
by Baseballfan
Durham, North Carolina United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1872

TheGrobe,

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

That will work perfectly. Thanks so much!

 

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