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the position where the game of chess starts. Pieces and king occupy their first rank, the pawns their second. White and black men are mirrored vertically. In orthodox classical chess, the kings occupy the e-file, the queen the d-file. bishop files are c and f, knight has b and g, and rooks a and h files respectively. In Fischer Random Chess or Chess960, there are [|960 starting positions] randomly determined and set up.
 * Initial Position**, (Initial Setup, Array)

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=Ambiguity= In the context of search, the initial position might also refer the root of the search tree, which is not necessarily the initial position of the game of chess.

=Perft= Movepath enumerations (perft) generated by Symbolic for the Initial Position.
 * Perft(10) 20 draft 9 Positions
 * Perft(10) 400 draft 8 Positions
 * Perft(11) 20 draft 10 Positions
 * Perft(11) 400 draft 9 Positions
 * Perft(12) 20 draft 11 Positions
 * Perft(12) 400 draft 10 Positions
 * Perft(13) 20 draft 12 Positions
 * Perft(13) 400 draft 11 Positions
 * Initial Position Summary

=See also=
 * Bitboard Board-Definition
 * Move List
 * Opening
 * Opening Book
 * Perft Results
 * Root
 * Test-Positions

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Komodo 11.2.2 - Initial position until depth 54] by Andreas Strangmüller, CCC, January 15, 2018 » Komodo
 * [|Stockfish 8 - Initial position until depth 59] by Andreas Strangmüller, CCC, January 16, 2018 » Stockfish
 * [|Cfish-54302a... Search of startpos to depth 50] by Louis Zulli, CCC, January 17, 2018 » CFish
 * [|Stockfish 180113 - Initial position until depth 65] by Andreas Strangmüller, CCC, March 27, 2018 » Stockfish
 * [|Houdini 6 - Initial position until depth 50] by Andreas Strangmüller, CCC, April 13, 2018 » Houdini

=External Links=
 * [|Rules of chess - Initial setup | Wikipedia]

=References= =What links here?= include page="Initial Position" component="backlinks" limit="120"
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