Chess960 is a position generator for the Chess variant of the same name. In this variant, the starting positions of the pieces on the back rank are randomized, following a few rules. First, the bishops must be on opposite colors, and second, the king must be between the rooks.
This variant is called Chess 960 because due to the rules governing the starting positions of pieces, it turns out that there are 960 possible starting positions.
Chess960 is written in pure C using the SDL2 library for graphics. In order
to compile the program, you need a C compiler, the SDL2 development files, the
SDL2-image development files, and meson.
Compiling is really easy. Simply set up meson in some directory, preferably
named build, and then compile the program. That can be done with the following
commands:
meson setup build
meson compile -C buildThe resulting executable will be available in the build directory.
This is not a difficult piece of software to use. Once you run the executable,
it will automatically generate the first position. After that, you can press
g to generate a new position. That's all there is to it.
The code for this project is 100% public domain.
The images are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, see the license here. The images were retrieved from greenchess.net.