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Upon entry to Fischer random chess, Fritz9 prompts the user to enter a position idn or to "draw lots". If the user wishes to choose the first rank configuration of pieces, he/she must know how to get at the idn, but, unfortunately, Fritz9 does not use the standard method described above. The table below shows a quick way to get the Fritz9 idn for any SP.
 
{| class=wikitable cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"
|- style="background:#eeeeee;" align="center"
| Digit
| colspan="6" | Knight positioning
|- align="center"
| '''0''' || N || N || - || - || - || -
|- align="center"
| '''1''' || N || - || N || - || - || -
|- align="center"
| '''2''' || N || - || - || N || - || -
|- align="center"
| '''3''' || N || - || - || - || N || -
|- align="center"
| '''4''' || N || - || - || - || - || N
|- align="center"
| '''5''' || - || N || N || - || - || -
|- align="center"
| '''6''' || - || N || - || N || - || -
|- align="center"
| '''7''' || - || N || - || - || N || -
|- align="center"
| '''8''' || - || N || - || - || - || N
|- align="center"
| '''9''' || - || - || N || N || - || -
|- align="center"
| '''10''' || - || - || N || - || N || -
|- align="center"
| '''11''' || - || - || N || - || - || N
|- align="center"
| '''12''' || - || - || - || N || N || -
|- align="center"
| '''13''' || - || - || - || N || - || N
|- align="center"
| '''14''' || - || - || - || - || N || N
|}
 
For any SP, after ignoring the bishops, attention is given first to the knights (rather than to the queen). After taking account of the arrangement of the two knights in six squares (skipping over bishops), the queen is left with four possibilities: 0,1,2,3 (counting from the a-side of the board and skipping over bishops and knights). The queen's position is the number of hyphens to the left of the "Q" in the NQ-skeleton for the SP.