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Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 04:24 PM UTC:

To Fergus Duniho: you are obviously unsure on the grade of distinctness
between valid CRC arrays and the GC starting position. So let us do a
historic approach and try to calculate the distance between GC and
historic 10x8 starting arrays as from Carrera, Bird or Capablanca. I think
that there are more than three reported arrays from those people. 

When it has been possible to patent GC being only slightly different to
those positions, it should be sufficient to demand only the smallest 
there occurring distance. Comparing the GC array 'RNBQCKABNR' to one
reported as from Bird 'RNBCQKABNR' there is a Hamming distance of only
two. But I am not sure, if this Bird's array has been specified that way
- I am missing still the original source. If the smallest distance indeed
should be greater than three, the code I have supplied has to be changed
appropriately.

May be variant experts could help to solve that question doubtlessly.