Talk:Generate Chess960 starting position

clarifying wording

In the first rule, the wording states   ··· all eight pawns must be placed on the second rank.

There are sixteen pawns.

How about   A player's eight pawns must be ···   or something similar. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 04:53, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

random starting position

A trivial REXX program (of two statements): <lang rexx>if random(0,1) then say 'NBQRBKNR'

               else say 'QBNRBKNR'</lang>

would, in the strictest sense, fullfill a random Chess960 starting position   (albeit only two random positions).

However, I believe the spirit of the requirement of random be that the random position would produce any of the 960 possible starting positions. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 04:53, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

---