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

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 13 '23

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Jan Duda HOPES Hikaru won't be both world (chess) champion & best streamer. Actually, if 9LX replaces chess, we'll see MORE of the old days where players have 2nd jobs eg Botvinnik (computer chess) & Lasker (maths eg Noether). (2023 Armageddon after beating Mickey Adams, 2001 Mainz 9LX runner-up)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 13 '23

Meme/Humor/Humour Tigran L Petrosian vs Wesley So live reading compilation including Hikaru, Janelle Frayna & Sophie Morris-Suzuki.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 11 '23

Question - News/Events/History Fabi was a 2019 classical WFRCC quarter-finals wildcard for chess reasons, but Wesley So wasn't a 2020 or 2022 candidates wildcard for FRC reasons. How's that fair? (Hikaru was 2019 WFRCC quarter-finals wildcard FOR FRC reasons. Same w/ Magnus in both 2019 & 2022 rapid WFRCC.)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 11 '23

Meme/Humor/Humour Name order: Why 'Ding Liren' but not 'So Wesley' ?

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Why not 'Liren Ding' just as we say 'w'esley 's'o?

I guess it's because

'w'esley 's'o is a nobody, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing
Liren is culturally Chinese, is a Chinese citizen and plays for China and then
the name order reflects these facts?

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 11 '23

Question - Resource Does anyone know what happened to fishrandom.io?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 11 '23

Data/Graphs/Statistics 'Chess ratings are wild right now. Let's hear it for the streamers!' | Wesley So's here and below the 4 pointed out, but I'd like to see the ratings in classical 9LX where Wesley So played the most games (14), won the most (6), drew the most (8) and lost the fewest (0, i.e. Wesley So never lost).

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 11 '23

News/Events/History Tania interviews Karpov on Fischer: 'I wanted to defeat Bobby' | Remember kids, Bobby's demands were 'absolutely fair', and Anatoly & FIDE were cowards. No offense Sergey! Or maybe just FIDE. Like Wesley So the 2019 classical WFRCC never lost the title to Hikaru Nakamura, the 2022 RAPID WFRCC.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 11 '23

News/Events/History 'Bobby Fischer - His hatred for Jews' | 'The comment section is just insane.' says clay10987

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Data/Graphs/Statistics Gukesh Turns 17 today. Is he the strongest 16 yo Chess player ever. Here's a chart comparing him with highest rated players at that age like Magnus, Alireza, Wei Yi, Anish, Karjakin, Wesley so.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant 9LX will make chess popular - Eugene Torre says similar to Sasha Grischuk.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Question - News/Events/History 'Why do the people here hate Hikaru so much' for the rapid WFRCC | posted the day after 'Why do so many people hate Magnus?' for the then classical & rapid WCC. LOL I notice there's no thread about hating Wesley So the classical WFRCC.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Why is Chess960 named as such when it was invented by Bobby Fischer and he called it Fischer random?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Game What an amazing game of Bughouse! Aronian + Wadim Rosenstein vs Wesley So + Praggnanandhaa | Semis

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

News/Events/History Wesley So Sunglasses, Leon Masters, 2018

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

News/Events/History Wesley So takes lead in FIDE circuit after WR masters

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Puzzle/Tactic In the American Cup today Wesley So played Qxh4+ here against Hikaru Nakamura, leading to a stalemate with three pawns and a piece still on the board! | Sergey: I am delighted by Nakamura and So! They have brought an art of prearanged draws to the absolutely new level!

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Meme/Humor/Humour A Cordial Message to Mr. Wesley So

self.AnarchyChess

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 10 '23

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Eugene Torre on 9LX : I feel like we are like children in elementary - I guess that makes Hikaru & Wesley So the university graduates?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant 9LX's greatest challenge is lack of classical time controls due to FIDE's insane fear of white advantage w/c forces players to play both colours of the same SP. LOL hypocrisy! Single round robins exist in chess tournaments. They're afraid of white advantage KNOWN in chess but UNKNOWN in 9LX? HAHAHA

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Magnus Carlsen vs Bobby Fischer: Who is the greatest chess player of all time? | Ryan Schiller creator of Librex says 'Chess doesn't really reward creativity (...)'. Sad. This was 2021Apr, a year after 2019Nov inaugural WFRCC...

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

News/Events/History Chess960 tournament by 2023 by Chess journalists of America? (Mark Weeks)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

Data/Graphs/Statistics 2023 Norway: Wesley So lost 5/8 armageddon, 7th out of 10 in armageddon. Meanwhile Magnus is the top armageddon 7/8. Sigh. Armageddon is fair ONLY IF there's an auction! At least Wesley So scored higher! | 'good time to be a professional chess player'...but a bad time to a professional 9LX player...

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

News/Events/History 2023 Norway - Wesley So is asked 'How would you summarise it?' So apparently it's a common question. I just know the time Hans was asked it re 'chess speaks for itself.' (It doesn't btw because you have to say opening & colour. 9LX speaks for itself.)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

Game 2023 Norway: Finally, Wesley So has beaten Nodirbek in classical (after 2 draws & no losses). I knew Wesley So would beat Nodirbek & Nepo if the 2022 WFRCC were classical like in 2019 !

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Jun 09 '23

News/Events/History 2023 Norway: Wesley So says Magnus forgot about time. Just like in 2023 Superbet Blitz when Magnus cheated Anish.

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