For Bored People (Chess960)

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Avatar of jingylima-OLD

I got an idea when I was feeling bored!

Let's analyse every starting position of Chess960!

I'll start us off:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Okay, that wasn't much...
But it's a starting point, right?
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I dindt get it... 

Avatar of ticcherr

arent their liek over 1000 unique start positions in ches960 or sumthin... dis is imposible 2 do

Avatar of jingylima-OLD

Chess960 is called Chess960 because there are 960 starting positions.

For an easier question, people can answer this instead:

How long do you think it'll take for us to analyse all 960 starting positions?

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ticcherr wrote:

arent their liek over 1000 unique start positions in ches960 or sumthin... dis is imposible 2 do

But there are over 100,000 combinations of ways to position seven misspellings and inaccuracies in a 17-word phrase.

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Not sure if that's a joke, but that position violates both of the two restrictions on chess960 positions.

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FancyKnight wrote:

Not sure if that's a joke, but that position violates both of the two restrictions on chess960 positions.

What are the violations?

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1. Bishops must be on opposite coloured squares

2. King must be between both rooks

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FancyKnight wrote:

1. Bishops must be on opposite coloured squares

2. King must be between both rooks

Okay then, position #2:

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Position #3: