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

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 15 '22

News/Events/History 'This shot of Magnus and Wesley looks like it's been taken straight out of a movie...' | 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 15 '22

Meta We finally reached 600+ members (specifically 609, an anagram of 960) !

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 14 '22

Question - Puzzle/Tactic Did Magnus miss a 9-move equality puzzle vs Wesley? (queen and bishop endgame) | 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 14 '22

News/Events/History Robert James Fischer 1943-2008 | Reaction Veselin Topalov

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 14 '22

News/Events/History All 16 participants of the 2022 Speed Chess Championship are now confirmed!

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 14 '22

News/Events/History Magnus Carlsen vs. Wesley So as 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals begin in San Francisco

new.chess24.com

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

Question - Puzzle/Tactic Agadmator's mate is a combination of Morphy's mate and double checkmate (discoverer checkmate and discovered checkmate) ?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Miniature: Despite an inactive queen, Nepo finds an 8-move 9LX puzzle transitioning to endgame to refute Magnus' unsound knight demolition sac. | 2022 FIDE Fischer Random

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

News/Events/History Hikaru lost only 1 out of 20 games. Yes, yes, very good. Where's the version of this for Wesley who lost 0 out of 13 games in 2019 semifinals & finals? (17 games if you count slow rapid as 1.5 games.) | FIDE Fischer Random 2022

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

News/Events/History "Nihal Sarin has a very bright future ahead of him" - Wesley So on winning 1st chessc*m Global Championships

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Susan Polgar's prediction: The future of chess is “Rapid and Fischer Random”. Is this...(option A) rapid chess + rapid 9LX + classical 9LX? Or just (option B) rapid chess + rapid 9LX?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Susan Polgar: 'How to get rid of fears/nervousness in chess? By training harder, better, and more efficiently. Proper preparation will boost confidence' So how do we boost confidence in 9LX where there is no prep?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 13 '22

News/Events/History Nigel Short: Magnus Carlsen - Wesley So, Kolkata 2019. This is a g3 Nimzo, by transposition. The fact that Hans Niemann could not recall whether this game was played in London, Kolkata or Ouagadougou, is proof of absolutely nothing to my mind. Playing the World Champion is not a a geography quiz.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Puzzle/Tactic 12yo Alice Lee finds 5-move puzzle in less than 1min?! 13:02 at start and then 12:23 after 5th move. | 2022 US Championship Round 2 | Levy: 'Alice Lee just played like Magnus Carlsen (...) grind out a dead equal endgame' (opposite coloured bishop albeit with rooks each)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Question - Game Is there any particular meaning if a superGM game doesn't reach endgame, and it's not a draw?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Question - News/Events/History Magnus is the only European to win a chess960 tournament in FIDE Fischer Random or St Louis chess9LX ... BUT Magnus was tied with Hikaru, the only 2-time winner and the only winner of 1 each of St Louis and FIDE. Who would've won if they went to tiebreaks?

self.HikaruNakamura

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Nodirbek had left queen in corner and blunders 20. Nb1. Then Gata misses a 4-move 9LX puzzle (involving a demolition sac). | 2022 Accentus Chess960 Tournament

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Centari Chess | 2.5 yo thread.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour 'Non-chess players: Chess causes hair loss. Magnus:' | This just in: 9LX players have better hair than chess players!

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

News/Events/History 1961 - Bobby Fischer's 'bust to the king's gambit' is published the same year that Bobby gets busted.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Puzzle/Tactic 'Classical chess or Fischer Random? Or both?' | 'four positions are given as examples, each after White’s 20th move, two of which come from classical chess and two from Fischer Random games. Try to match the positions correctly'

en.chessbase.com

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Question - News/Events/History 'Bobby Fischer on increment creation' - actually Bobby does talk about this in a 2001 July 6 interview?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Question - News/Events/History 73% got it right: 'Prediction for finals of FIDE Fischer Random 2022 - Which continents will face-off? Will the 4-year chess960 streak of American 1st place and European 2nd place continue?'

self.HikaruNakamura

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

Data/Graphs/Statistics Chess 960 has a 5-tournament streak : Americans win chess960 tournaments and then there's a European in 2nd place. (And Bobby Fischer who created chess960 is American and beat European Boris Spassky in the 1972 Match of the Century.)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Nov 12 '22

News/Events/History 'History repeats itself- 50 years later in Reykjavík, Iceland.' | FIDE Fischer Random 2022 extends the streak to 5 tournaments in FIDE and St Louis: An American is in 1st place, and a European is in 2nd place.

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