https://alexhame.link/tags/chess/ Recent content in Chess on Alex Hamelink Hugo en Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:43:24 +0200 https://alexhame.link/posts/chess960/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:43:24 +0200 https://alexhame.link/posts/chess960/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been playing chess with my son recently. A well known variant of chess is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960">Chess960</a>, also known as Fischer Random Chess. I wanted to have a generator on my own website to use to generate starting positions by number. Previously I wrote <a href="https://gitlab.com/airlobsters/chess960/-/blob/master/generate_board.py?ref_type=heads">a small python script</a> to do this, so I decided to convert it to Javascript using google gemini and embed it here.</p> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://alexhame.link/chess/chess960.css"> <div id="chess-configuration"></div> <div id="chess-controls" style="margin-top: 1em;"> <button id="prev-btn">Previous</button> <button id="random-btn">Random</button> <button id="next-btn">Next</button> </div> <div id="chess-result"></div> <script src="https://alexhame.link/chess/chess960.js"></script> <h2 id="slight-difference-in-rules">slight difference in rules</h2> <p>The rules are the same as regular chess, except for the rules for castling. For details I would recommend reading the wiki article, but the short summary is that the pieces end up in the same position as they end up in regular chess.</p>