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Falcon Random Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]So it is a little bit interesting that Chess-960, or F.R.C., comes up with 960 positions and Falcon Random Chess 96 a factor of 0.1. The chess960 ones, call them non-mirrored are reflected one side to the other the same. The F.R.C.-96 are symmetrical two ways not one and omit King cornered to start. So each of Rook, Knight, Bishop and Falcon generate 24 positions. They are from 4x4x3x2, not 5x4x3x2 because of omitting the King-Queen at the ends. Any such four pairs of core-pieces would generate a similar 96 positions on 10-wide as obvious subvariants. Examples of four abreast about the same one to the other are Cazaux's Shako's main line, ignoring the Cannons behind, of R-N-B-Elephant and Winther's Mastodon of R-N-B-Mastodon. That is, Elephant there and Mastodon here of recent NextChess ranking are the identical piece. That simplification by Winther is valid improvement.