Fischer Random Chess

Introduction

Fischer Random Chess is a variant of Chess. To know more about Fisher Random Chess, please visit the Chess960 wiki page. This repo is used to create a LaTeX document that shows how there are 960 unique starting combinations for Fischer Random Chess. We also enumrate these 960 unique combinations.

Contents of Repo

The following are important files:

• simple-gen-fisher-random-placements.rb : This is a script that generates all the unique starting placements in a tabular form with N number of placements per row. There is also pagination after every M rows.
• gen-fisher-random-placements.rb : This is a script that generates all the unique starting placements in LaTeX tabular form that is suitable for insertion into fischer-random-chess.tex.template between BEGIN: pasting and [END: pasting] and generates the file fischer-random-chess.tex
• fischer-random-chess.tex : This is the file that is to be composed using PDFLaTeX after it has been created using gen-fisher-random-placements.rb and fischer-random-chess.tex.template
• Makefile : This is the makefile that is used to compose fischer-random-chess.tex to create fischer-random-chess.pdf
• fischer-random-chess.pdf : This is the file that is generated by composing fischer-random-chess.tex using PDFLaTeX

PDF Document Generation

The main document is a PDF document (fischer-random-chess.pdf) and is here.

To generate the PDF (fischer-random-chess.pdf) run the following command(s):

make cleanall # To clean up auxiliary files and the generated PDF
make clean    # To clean up auxiliary files
make          # To compile the LaTeX file and generate the PDF

Makefile Explanation:

• TARGET : The base name of your LaTeX file (without the .tex extension).
• all : The default rule that depends on the PDF file.
• $(TARGET).pdf : The rule to generate the PDF from the LaTeX file. It runs pdflatex twice to ensure that references and table of contents are updated correctly.
• clean : A rule to remove auxiliary files generated by pdflatex.
• cleanall : A rule to remove auxiliary files and the generated PDF.
• .PHONY : Declares all, clean, and cleanall as phony targets, meaning they are not actual files.