rand() not generating random numbers after modulo operation

Question

I\'m taking a C refresher and took on a board game as an exercise. The board game is \"Game of the Generals\" and is pretty much like chess as it uses pieces with ranks on a

Answer 1

Make sure to initialize / seed the random number generator:

#include <time.h>

srand(time(NULL));

Answer 2

If you don't seed the pseudo random number generator, it is like if you called in the start of your program:

srand(1);

You can call srand with an argument that depends on the time so that two successive calls of your program would generate different numbers:

srand(time(NULL));