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13th March 2009, 05:11am
#1
by sebas4life
utrecht Netherlands
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 333

Is there in the feauture going to be Chess960? I think that would be very good and fun! It brings more variety to this website, and more people will join. 

13th March 2009, 05:28am
#2
by joetheplumber
The White House United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 322

that would be a lot of code to write...

I think we will get it one day but I wouldnt wait for it.

13th March 2009, 05:32am
#3
by sebas4life
utrecht Netherlands
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 333

why? Don't those codes allready exist? And how is it so hard?

13th March 2009, 05:44am
#4
by gabrielconroy
Bristol United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 2149

Well I guess the difficult part would be coding the 'randomisation' of the pieces at the beginning; other than that the rules are exactly the same. That said, there's an open source java implementation of Boedlander's method of randomising the initial position within the constraints of the rules (that castling is possible and that the bishops are on different colours) here:

 

http://home.planet.nl/~thale/Java/Classes/chess960/chess960.html

 

So I don't think it would be all that difficult for someone who knows what they're doing to put into practise here.

13th March 2009, 06:00am
#5
by sebas4life
utrecht Netherlands
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 333

no I don't think so either, and it would be really nice if it could be implemented here.

26th April 2009, 08:30pm
#6
by val08
United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 4354

Actually, if there are only 960 positions, it would be pretty easy to just create a list and have the computer randomly choose one of the 960 positions. Making the computer generate a random position based on the rules is very inefficient.

26th April 2009, 08:57pm
#7
by Charlie91
Philippines
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 870

Fischerandom would be great; this variant is available in at least two other sites I'm registered in.  This is a good development if it's actually in the works...

 

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