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Assuming the bishops have to be on opposite colors, there are 4*4=16 ways to place the bishops. With the bishops fixed, there are 6*5 ways to place the king and queen. With the above four pieces fixed…

@the-lone-wolf And how many possible starting positions are there in your antichess "960", exactly? Fischer didn't invent shuffle chess, he invented a specific variation on it that enabled castling.

@Toadofsky Concrete example of an incorrect loss on time: https://lichess.org/dMtcMzjF

@the-lone-wolf No, 960 only makes sense with castling. The king isn't a special piece, why restrict it to starting between the rooks?

I'm out.

I think you're thinking of opposite-colored bishops + blocked pawns, while I'm talking about lone bishop(s of one color) vs. bishop of the opposite color + any amount of material (non-pawns can only h…

Insufficient winning material if the knights are on same-colored squares, in other words insufficient for the player not on move. Seems right, as long as your flag can only be called when it's your tu…

It does: opposite-colored bishops with no other material is an immediate draw, for example. Appropriately the inverse of normal chess: same-colored bishops cannot mate but can capture each other, whil…

Would Lichess have correctly declared the following antichess game a draw if I'd run out of time? https://lichess.org/nMhC4Q9m/black#69 The material is sufficient (in fact, black wins easily), but it …