At the beginning of a game of chess, the back row consists of two (identical) rooks on the corners, then two knights next to them, then two bishops, and finally a king and a queen in the center. Bobby Fischer, an American chess legend, popularized the idea of randomly shuffled starting positions. In how many distinct ways can the eight pieces above be aligned?

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