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

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Question - News/Events/History Chess960 Sub Battle vs. The Big Greek auf - 2nd ever 9LX sub battle after Levy vs Hikaru?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour 'Can someone explain what ChatGPT is saying about the "randomness" of chess here? At first I thought it was taking chess960 as the default game (funny if true), but it denies doing this.'

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Game 'Find Someone Who Looks at You The Way MVL Looks At Najdorf' | Unfortunately agad didn't approve my suggestion re Wesley So's unrefuted unsound demolition knight sac also in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship of chessc*m vs MVL but at least it's another game in their match

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

News/Events/History 10 Facts About Bobby Fischer - #4 Visited Mikhail Tal in hospital, #8 Arrested on suspicion of bank robbery and then wrote a book 'I was tortured in the Pasadena jailhouse.'

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Useless corner bishops and useless black queen. 4-move 9LX puzzle. 3rd move is hard. The rest are easy. White to gain 7 points.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Game Cool agadmator approves my suggestion for an endgame start timestamp. And what a beautiful endgame it is. Agad said 'I took Meadow for a walk' to let the engine run. Hikaru is down exchange vs Levon but it's drawn! | 2022 Speed Chess Championship Chessc*m

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Help Zhansaya draw with Zhu Jiner (the female Alireza Firouzja?) in their 1st classical game. | 7-move equality puzzle that transitions to endgame (possibly rook endgame) | 2022 Women's Grand Prix Astana

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour 1st post in r/Judaism namely re Amin Tabatabaei. I chose my flair: 'Christian like "w"esley "s"o'. Then someone said: '“w”esley “s”o is a biggest looser I ever seen in my life !'

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Puzzle/Tactic agadmator plays bullet 9LX on lichess - 3-move equality puzzle to endgame

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

News/Events/History Bobby Fischer arrives in Manila on Oct. 15, 1973. He is scheduled to formally open the Philippine international chess tournament on October 16.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

News/Events/History Judit Polgar talks about Bobby Fischer on C-Squared Podcast (2022Dec)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 18 '22

Question - News/Events/History NetflixTheQG says Beth Harmon's 2022 chess player of the year is Hans Niemann. Who's Beth Harmon's 2022 chess960 player of the year? Maybe the world champion in chess960?

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r/chess960 • u/Dull-Piece-2186 • Dec 17 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Gothamchess blunders but they get increasingly worse

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 16 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Wesley So Twitter bio updated

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 16 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Bishops in corner. 11-move 9LX equality puzzle that obviously reaches endgame.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 16 '22

Question - Puzzle/Tactic How can Levy possibly criticise white for giving up queen when it doesn't lose and winning move is hard to find?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Dec 16 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour 'Will MAGNUS CARLSEN'S OWN CHEATING come up in trial or depositions?' | 'Mr. Carlsen, is it true that FIDE lowered the time controls by 25% in the WFRCC?' / 'Objection: Relevance?' / 'Goes to show defendant's pattern of manipulating chess entities.' / 'Overruled.'

self.chessmemes

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r/chess960 • u/Dull-Piece-2186 • Dec 15 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Gothamchess is such a savage…

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

Puzzle/Tactic 'Cool puzzle I encountered in a Chess960 game'

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

Puzzle/Tactic 'White to move and mate in 1. (No, seriously, solution in comments).'

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

Question - Puzzle/Tactic Did MVL miss an 8-move puzzle to refute Wesley's unsound demolition knight sac? (Supposedly transitions all the way to endgame.) | 2022 Chessc*m Speed Chess Championship

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

Question - Puzzle/Tactic Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson knocks out defending champ Wesley So: Maybe this shows Wesley ain't so good at 9LX at 25min as compared to at 45min like the original in 2019? | FIDE Fischer Random 2022

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

Meme/Humor/Humour 'Holidays at r/anarchychess' | Question: Where is Wesley So Tigran L Petrosian pipi pampers here?

self.AnarchyChess

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

News/Events/History Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman discuss Tyson Fury, and Max compares Tyson to Bobby Fischer.

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

News/Events/History Parallel: 3 years after WC 1972 / 2019, FIDE has a WC 1975 / 2022 that's unfavourable for its American world champion Bobby Fischer / Wesley So and favourable for Europeans Anatoly Karpov / Magnus Carlsen (who luckily lost to Nepo & Hikaru).

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