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"kon" is derived from "конь", the Russian word for Knight, and denotes a simple
command-line tool for generating Fischer Random Chess (also called Chess960)
starting positions, either randomly or by #id.

Of course, you can find dozens of tools like that out there, especially online
applets (see links below), but I thought it would be fun to implement that as a
mini-project, trying to get my hands a bit dirty with python.  Another aspect
that comes to my mind right now: there are only 960 positions in that game,
which means we could easily just save all those positions once in a file and
the "generator" does nothing more than randomly create a number between 0 and
959 and get the approprite entry from the file that number references to. *But*
nevertheless just for fun, I want those positions to be calculated every time
(it's a trivial procedure anyway), maybe I have to implement it on a very
memory-limited microcontroller some day, who knows? ;-)

Vienna, 17.10.2009
Sebastian "theStack" Falbesoner

Interesting links:
	Wikipedia article on Fischer Random Chess:
		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_960
	The numbering scheme, most important for that project:
		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960_numbering_scheme
	All 960 starting positions in one image: 
		http://playchess960.com/images/AllPositionsChess960.gif
	Online random position generator with GUI and explanation of rules:
		http://www.chessgames.com/perl/fischerandom
	Chess960 portal:
		http://www.chess960.net