Capablanca-Random-Chess

Capablanca Random Chess (also CRC) is a chess variant, played on a 10x8 board. To Capablancas extended character set with Chancellor ( also Marshal or Centaur ) and Archbishop ( Cardinal, Janus or Archangel ) will be drawn from a start position 48,000 options, those with unmet farmers are discarded. Castlings remain unchanged as in Chess960 elements of the game. The Registrar may like rook and knight move, the Archbishop may be as bishop and knight move.

Criteria of starting positions

  • Runners shall be placed on different colored fields, this applies correspondingly for Lady and Archbishop, as these also include the pace of a runner in itself (similar to Chess960)
  • The king must always be between the two towers are ( as in traditional Chess and Chess960)
  • Only those positions are permitted, in which all farmers are covered (like in traditional chess )
  • Positions with less than three differences from the Gothic Chess may be omitted ( to avoid conflict )
  • Positions with adjacent runners have to be avoided ( added April 2006)

Draw procedure

Due to the vast number of options program-based methods are highly recommended. The following procedure is recommended (which could in theory also apply to a cube):

Indeed, there are 12118 different allowable starting positions.

Castling treatment

Character icons

The author suggested that the two additional figures ( while maintaining their established abbreviation ) rename in Z = centaur ( a below behuftes hermaphrodites ) and E = Archangel ( a fortified, the paradise guarded swordtail ). The goal is a clearer symbolism against confusion of runners with Archbishop or jumper with the Registrar. To this end, the proposed symbols each containing separate new image components.

Advanced FEN coding

When Capablanca Random Chess the X - FEN is used to represent positions use

Computer chess realizations

A motive for the CRC, chess programmers to create a varied and promising field test without huge opening libraries.

By now, Capablanca Random Chess, for example, be played with SMIRF.

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