Here is a post of one way to calculate how many positions of particular configurations exist in the total set of Chess960 starting positions. I wanted to know how many SP's have bishops in their traditional locations. Here's what I did courtesy of Mark Week's Chess960 Position Generator:
- Used Mark's SP text list and published it as a Google document:
Chess960 SP List As Google Doc - Incredibly it looks like Google Docs text search facility doesn't allow searching with regular expressions although I'm sure at one point it did.
- So I downloaded the document into Open Office and did a regular expression search in it.
- Ctrl-F and make sure "regular expressions" is ticked under more options
- Typed in [a-z]{2}b..b[a-z]{2}
- Clicked on "Replace All" to show me how many replacements were made (60)
- Clicked "undo" with the search box still active and repeated for more searches
So there are 60 positions that have bishops on the c and f files. The question is what would have been the logical way to infer it?
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