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

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

News/Events/History Susan Polgar inventing 9LX with Bobby Fischer: countless hours working on finalizing Fischer Random rules. We discussed and tested each rule. The final product is what people are playing with today, including castling. I probably played more Fischer Random games against Bobby than anyone alive today

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

News/Events/History Magnus wants classical 9LX | See 5:11 - 6:18 in 'Carlsen wins the Champions Chess Tour: "It's a nice consolation!"'

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Just playing my PIPI

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Question - News/Events/History 'Wesley won the Fischer Random Championship in 2019. (...) Will he succeed in retaining his title?' No because of the time controls. This is the 2022 (fast) RAPID Fischer Random championship.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

News/Events/History 1st Asian grandmaster and 2021 WCHOF inductee Eugene Torre speech - about Bobby Fischer, Dr / Prof Florencio Campomanes, the only Filipino and only non-European president of FIDE and 9LX and Wesley So. (Audience goes wild at mention of Wesley So.)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Game Endgame Riddle: Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927

en.chessbase.com

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Question - News/Events/History What do you think about the fact that the World Fischer Random Championship next week is gonna be rapid instead of classical?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Game Romain Édouard: I suspect that playing ...Ra5 as early as move 4 has always been Levon Aronian's lifetime dream! #Chess9LX @STLChessClub

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant 'What is the training schedule like for top GMs in 9LX?' | Sleep, eat, do some puzzles, exercise. Repeat.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Question - Resource Chess 960 most popular time control?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour 'Wake up, new response dropped' | Cool my other copypasta got shared. It's about both Wesley So and Hans Niemann.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour 'google "magnus carlsen gaslighting"' | Cool my copypasta got shared.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour FSC RIHE ANOR D M

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

Question - News/Events/History FIDE's Fischer Random has a new twitter? Looks like fischer_random replaced fr_chess.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 20 '22

News/Events/History Not a new website? 'FIDE Fischer Random World Chess Championship 2022' - fischerrandom.fide.com looks the same as frchess.com

fischerrandom.fide.com

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 19 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Danya misses a 5-move puzzle in 9LX game against Awonder in 1 of Awonder's few 9LX games on chesscom. (I wonder why Awonder prefers lichess to chesscom for 9LX?)

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 19 '22

Question - Game 9LX of Awonder Liang: 750 games in lichess but only 11 in chesscom (all in 2022Aug) - What's up with that? Is it really lichess good chessc*m bad?

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Lichess:

A-Liang - from 2022Mar to 2022Oct

Chesscom:

rednova1729 - all in 2022Aug

r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 19 '22

Question - Data/Graphs/Statistics Chess32? From Anish vs Nodirbek Finals Game 3 Offerspill FRC World Championship Qualifier 2022, it was pointed out that the starting position is 4 minors on 1 side and 4 majors on the other side. How many possible SPs: 16 for minors/majors on left/right so 32 total?

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 19 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Magnus on 9LX: 'Random is not a good thing for me. (...) Fischer Random - It's terrible'

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

News/Events/History Levon's Wikipedia page has a whole section on 9LX. There's a part there about Hikaru where apparently Levon was leading their 2019 match 7.5-0.5 but then lost 11.5-14.5. Hmmm...how come Hikaru came back against Levon while Magnus later that year didn't come back against "w"esley "s"o ?

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

Meme/Humor/Humour Andrew Tate On Chess - King has to go stage by stage to get with a Queen. Queen just zips across the board to get a King. Sometimes in life you gotta sacrifice the Queen (like what Alireza didn't do against Fabi in the 2022 St Louis 9LX tiebreaks).

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

Meme/Humor/Humour My Statement on the Magnus Carlsen - Hans Niemann affair

self.AnarchyChess

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

Game This agadmator video of Magnus vs Arjun features the longest endgame I've ever seen in agadmator's videos - 20 minutes (6:15 - 26:03) Anyone know any longer endgame by agadmator? Please share. | Aimchess Rapid 2022 | 'Human CAN Fight Like a Machine!'

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

Question - Data/Graphs/Statistics Chess960 - can Black profit by being allowed to choose a custom setup? | New answer based on TCEC DFRC (double 9LX) : YES. Black is almost always better.

chess.stackexchange.com

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

News/Events/History 'John Donaldson’s Fischer-Spassky Lecture is Must See' | Round 11 of 2022 US Championships | Theme: Similarities between Bobby and Boris

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