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* there can not be any pawn in the promotion square (no white pawn in the eighth rank, and no black pawn in the first rank);
* including the kings, up to 32 pieces of either color can be added. There is no requirement for material balance between sides; The picking of pieces does not have to comply to a regular chess set : there can be five knights, twenty rooks, whatever... as long as the total number of pieces do not exceed thirty-two.
* it is white's turn, it is assumed that both sides have lost castling rights and that there is no possibility for
No requirement is made regarding the probability distribution of your method, but your program should be able to span a reasonably representative sample of all possible positions. For instance, programs that would always generate positions with say five pieces on the board, or with kings on a corner, would not be considered truly random.
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