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How to Use This Page

This page is used for generating a random position to play Fischerandom Chess. Every time you reload this page, or press the new position button, a different position will appear. Just set up a chessboard based on the diagram above, find an opponent, and have fun.

Quick Rules for Fischerandom Chess

Fischerandom Chess is played with a normal chess board and pieces. All rules of Orthodox Chess apply except as otherwise noted.
The initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly for White, and the black pieces are placed equal and opposite the white pieces. The piece placement is subject to the constraints:

the king is placed somewhere between the two rooks, and
the bishops are on opposite colors.
pawns are placed on each player's second rank as in Orthodox Chess.
There are 960 such configurations.
Castling, as in Orthodox chess, is an exceptional move involving both the King and Rook. Castling is a valid move under these circumstances:

Neither King nor Rook has moved.
The King is not in check before or after castling.
All squares between the castling King's initial and final squares (including the final square), and all of the squares between the castling Rook's initial and final squares (including the final square), must be vacant except for the King and Rook.
No square through which the King moves is under enemy attack.
The movement of the King and Rook during castling should be easily understood by players of Orthodox Chess:

When castling on the h-side (White's right side), the King ends on g1 (g8), and the rook on f1 (f8), just like the O-O move in Orthodox chess.
When castling on the a-side (White's left side), the King ends on c1 (c8), and the rook on d1 (d8), just like the O-O-O move in Orthodox chess.
Sometimes the King will not need to move; sometimes the Rook will not need to move. That's OK.

The object is to checkmate the opponent's King. Have fun!

Audio file of Bobby Fischer explaining Fischerandom

fischerandom.mp3 (MP3 format)

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Oct-14-04		ughaibu: Clocked: 24...Ng5 25.Kh1 Bh3 and it'll be check next move, so white resigned.

Oct-14-04		Willem Wallekers: When we played street football (soccer) we had a rule: three corners means a penalty.

Oct-14-04		nopawnintended: ughaibu- my last post was a bit snippy, apologies. The game you put up was very cool, I will try three checks tonight with my chess gang. We also sometimes take diagrams from gm games and use them as the starting position, for example set the board up at the fifteenth move of one of the Leko-Kramnik draws and play it out...quite enjoyable and puts the player right in the middle of the action from the first move...also interesting to see if you can pursue the ideas already on the board.

Oct-14-04		Gypsy: <We also sometimes take diagrams from gm games and use them as the starting position ... > I think that is a great idea!

Oct-16-04		boyhimud: <uqhaibu> just give me a board with 64 squares, 16 white pieces and 16 black pieces and lets see what you can do against me. Your game your rules. What do you say to that.

Oct-16-04		tpstar: <ughaibu> Here's some solid advice for that bold challenge. You take the side with the 15 Queens, and give him the side with the 15 Pawns. Then please post the gamescore.

Oct-16-04		tsj2000: Ha ha ha good one tpstar!!

Oct-16-04		cuendillar: Nice idea to play out the gm draws. That could be a nice idea to try at my chess club. Perhaps we could make it like a theme tournament... By the way, when I looked on this page I thought it was something wrong with it. On the setup display board it showed the standard setup. I knew it could happen, but it surprised me nonetheless.

Oct-16-04		boyhimud: Oh well too chicken to try a fair game.

Oct-16-04		ughaibu: Boyhimud: What do you mean by that?

Oct-16-04		boyhimud: Nothing just nothing.

Oct-17-04		Gypsy: <ughaibu> That 3-check chess is interesting and seems very tactical. The endgames in the can also be of quite different flavor. But I fear one never gets to endgame in practice there. What is your experience with it?

Oct-17-04		Catfriend: <boyhimud> do you know what site is all about?! That's the wrong place to ensue such challenge, and that's the wrong way to do it! Even more, "thanks" to this ignorance you accuse <ughaibu> of cowardise?!

Oct-17-04		Catfriend: <ughaibu> does double-check count as two?

Oct-17-04		boyhimud: My personal apologies to everybody here, I forgot to logout my account and somebody has been using it issuing challenges and everthing. Obviously not a fan of the game and a coward himself. I hope everyone would consider my sincerest apology.

Oct-17-04		ughaibu: Catfriend: double check counts as only one. Gypsy: I dont think I've ever had an endgame in which the result wasn't already decided.

Oct-19-04		wazowski: how do u move the pieces anyone?

Oct-19-04		Lucky1: Pieces move the same as in regular chess, except castling. And when you castle the pieces end up in the same place as regular chess. Castling is described at the top of this page.

Oct-20-04		immortal loss: I'm like wazowski, can ya move the pieces above? I'd like to play fischer random. I've been tryin to play it all day but the only place cost$ any suggestions?!

Oct-20-04		sharpnova: position 54 is my favourite

Oct-20-04		sharpnova: you can play correspondence fischer random chess at: www.schemingmind.com

Oct-28-04		Leviathan: <sharpnova: position 54 is my favourite> lol. A pretty interesting and unusual position, I must say. I'd like to try it someday, when I feel bored of classical chess :)

Nov-02-04		pkjohn146: Just curious, who do you think would have been the greatest fischerandom player if it had been the standard instead of orthodox chess? I'm gonna take a stab and say Fischer or Pillsbury. if anyone could memorize openings from 960 different positions, it would be those two. Not to mention those guys aren't too shabby when it comes to tactics.

Nov-02-04		azaris: <Not to mention...> that they're both American.

Nov-02-04		Gypsy: <pkjohn146> Mostly you would get the usual suspects, with a few important ommisions and a few additions. You would still have the "pre-theory" greats Steinitz, Lasker, and Capablanca. Botvinnik would probably be the one most negatively affected, but who knows. Some "lazy" stars, like Spassky, would shine even brighter. Karpov would still been practically unbeatable.

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