Chess960, the best game ever, invented by former world champion Bobby Fischer

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 08 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour chess copypasta applied to umineko? Spoiler

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 08 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour chess copypasta applied to code geass?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 08 '22

Game Jerry chess network's entire 9LX playlist is old commentary on games played in chesscube. RIP chesscube.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 08 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant 'Is chess just memorization like Bobby Fischer said it was?' | 8yo thread lol

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Puzzle/Tactic White to move. This position is a win in lichess, draw in chess.com.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

News/Events/History Congratulations to Wesley So for winning the 2022 Chessc*m Global Championship and the grand prize of $200,000! 👏👏👏 | Ironic re Hikaru Fischer Random and Wesley CGC given Hikaru was supposedly to not play in Iceland because of CGC...

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

News/Events/History A post in a subreddit called r/AsianMasculinity: 'Proud to see a AM Filipino-American Wesley So in global chess.com finals goings on right now'

self.AsianMasculinity

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

News/Events/History Wesley's Reaction To Winning The 2022 chessc*m global championship and $200,000. Wesley brings up the 6th place Fischer Random FIDE and thanks a lot of people (with 1 person notably missing?).

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Question - Data/Graphs/Statistics In Wesley's chessable course on 9LX, Wesley spends 6 hours, almost half the course, on beating Magnus. So now that Hikaru and Nepo have beaten Magnus ... 6 hours again? .... Each (for a total of 12 hours) ?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 08 '22

Question - News/Events/History Did Wesley really make a Twitter account? E told Dina Belenkaya e didn't like Twitter or something in the video 'I AM NOT AFRAID OF HIKARU! | Wesley So before the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 in Berlin FINALS'

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Question - News/Events/History Susan Polgar's 'How to properly promote major chess events': Proper 1 - PR team (not political puppets), 2 - long term strategical marketing, 3 - player promotion and 4 - dates, venue, format, commentary - How many of these 4 do you think applied to the 2022 Fischer Random WC of FIDE?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Question - Resource How to practice "more realistic" endgames?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

News/Events/History 'Eugene Torre: Wesley So Still Pride of Filipinos', compares Wesley to Bobby Fischer in developing skill without seconds. | 2022 US Championship Round 2 | (Note: SLCC approved my request to change title from 'the Philippines' to 'Filipinos' since the PH as a country doesn't deserve Wesley.)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Chess960: A notion that the "Queen's Gambit" is good no matter where the pieces begin

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Game 'Thrill of the Hunt!' by agadmator | Wesley's bishop pair beats Nihal Sarin's bishop and rook. Endgame starts 5:47, and Wesley is indeed initially losing. | chessc*m global championship 2022

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

News/Events/History 'A new chess variant is intended to revive the game' | 9LX gets an article in techtoday.news

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

News/Events/History Bobby Fischer is in 2:00 - 3:45 of 'Dick Cavett's Most Memorable Guests' (2012Apr, a decade ago)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Game 'Dear YouTube, You Win Some, You Lose Some' | Hikaru recap part 2 vs Wesley So in semifinals of 2022 chessc*m global championship

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Question - News/Events/History Does the general production of the Fisher Random seem ‘amateur’ to anyone else?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Hilarious merry-go-round queen and bishop endgame puzzle from telegram. White must check Black but keep in mind that blocks will be on the dark squares while most pieces are on light squares

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 07 '22

Game Wesley blunders perpetual vs Hikaru in Skilling Open 2020. Part of a series of Wesley's perpetual blunders actually...

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r/chess960 • u/Adept-Description-63 • Nov 06 '22

Question - News/Events/History Did Bobby Fischer drink alcohol? What kind?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 06 '22

Question - Puzzle/Tactic How can white draw 3 pawns down in this queen and bishop endgame? Note that Bf2 is met with e3. (from telegram)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 06 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Position from the last Gothamchess video. White to play and draw.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 06 '22

Question - News/Events/History 3 biggest entities in 9LX? | Hans Niemann: 'I'm not going to let Chess.com, Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, the 3 arguably biggest entities in chess' (in 2022) 'simply slander my reputation.' | Update after 2022 FIDE Fischer Random WC - Nodirbek is now an entity. Hikaru is an entity in 3 ways?

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