I feel like being a yellow or orange belt at judo and you guys being black belt. :=)
The first thing that comes to mind on reading this is: "why then program at all, and not just let the Play-Test Applet generate the code for you?". But perhaps this is less easy than usual because many of your variants don't have a fixed initial position, but start with some piece placement (by black). This is not a standard feature of the Play-Test Applet, because the Interactive Diagram doesn't support it: the naturan way to implement it there is just let the computer shuffle the pieces randomly, accept the Diagram's choice when you want to play black against it, and prest 'Start Game' until you get the position you wanted to pick when you want to play black.
But thet means the GAME code generated by the Applet also shuffles randomly, instead of allowing black to pick the setup. Perhapssuch placement should be supported by the library routine for shuffling, in a way that is asy to activate by post-editing the automatically generated code. But I don't know what is the common way to enter the black choices in this case. Is that as a number of free drops in a single move?
The first thing that comes to mind on reading this is: "why then program at all, and not just let the Play-Test Applet generate the code for you?". But perhaps this is less easy than usual because many of your variants don't have a fixed initial position, but start with some piece placement (by black). This is not a standard feature of the Play-Test Applet, because the Interactive Diagram doesn't support it: the naturan way to implement it there is just let the computer shuffle the pieces randomly, accept the Diagram's choice when you want to play black against it, and prest 'Start Game' until you get the position you wanted to pick when you want to play black.
But thet means the GAME code generated by the Applet also shuffles randomly, instead of allowing black to pick the setup. Perhapssuch placement should be supported by the library routine for shuffling, in a way that is asy to activate by post-editing the automatically generated code. But I don't know what is the common way to enter the black choices in this case. Is that as a number of free drops in a single move?