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Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Feb 27, 2005 08:23 PM UTC:
Fischer Random Chess has the 960 legal starting positions numbered, and has
the details on how to find a position from it's number, and how to find
the number based on the position.  Capablanca Random Chess could benefit
from such a system.  Besides making it easier to identify starting
positions, it would also solve Fergus' present dilema.  If a position can
be determined from a position number, all that would be required is
generation a random number in the valid range.

For a good description of how FRC identifies positions by number, see:
http://frcec.tripod.com/fischerrandomchessstartingpositions/