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Starting position

The canonical opening position — every chess position is reachable from here.

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Starting positionThe mother of all positionsabcdefgh87654321♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖

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# title: Starting position
# subtitle: The mother of all positions
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