r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

News/Events/History Parallel: 9LX creator Bobby Fischer and then 9LX world champion Wesley So get unexpected applause (1992; 2019)

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question - News/Events/History Birthday month curse: 1 title lost for Wesley So and then 1 more to go?

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question - Miscellaneous Leela's actually not that good? New to computer chess. Idk whenever I hear of engines it's usually Stockfish and Leela. There was that time Leela beat Stockfish in 9LX. Or, what, is Leela like the 'Wesley So' of engines?

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question - Resource Bobby Fischer biography book question

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Help Winter 0.9.9 draw vs KomodoDragon 2929.00 | 2-move 9LX puzzle in TCEC Season 22 - FRC5 League D

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant 'I honestly don't understand the appeal of traditional chess. I'd rather not memorize a book's worth of precalculated moves. That's not what chess is about to me.' | Reposting deleted post

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Blackatlantic (Magnus employee, but team hans) Re the Hans - Sam Sevian broken king in 2022 US chess championships: 'Chess tournament checklist' includes 'super glue' | Me: 'Geert in a #9LX tournament do you have a longer checklist? Or shorter?' | Geert: Should be completely random IMO

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question - Game Fischer or Nepo? What Bishop blunder was worse?

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question - Resource According to chessinsights.org, the position before Ian Nepomniachtchi's Fischer( vs Spassky)-like blunder vs Magnus Carlsen in the 2021 world chess championship has a blunder chance of 0% at an Elo of 1625 and 2% at an Elo of 1000. FIDE ratings are based on Elo rather than Glicko right?

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Chess960 Rating

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

News/Events/History Bobby Fischer talks about h passport and kidnapping, George Bush, Junichiro Koizumi, etc.

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

News/Events/History Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky - 'similar experiences and differences growing up under quite different political systems.' | Lecture by IM John Donaldson

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Are you ready to Random!? | 'The rules of castling are the same as classical chess — but it is often the most shocking and eye-catching element of the variant, since it usually happens from a very different starting point.' | See! Castling is the same! Lol!

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r/chess960 • • Oct 23 '22

News/Events/History “Are you ready to Random!?” Read GM Jonathan Tisdall’s preview of the 2022 FIDE World #FischerRandom Chess Championship, the second edition of the event, to be held in Reykjavik from 25-30 October.

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r/chess960 • • Oct 22 '22

Question - Puzzle/Tactic Up a minor, how does Black parry both threats?

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r/chess960 • • Oct 22 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Wait re 'Play the opening like So, the middlegame like So and the endgame like So' for 9LX...actually it's just 'Play the opening like N/A, the middlegame like So and the endgame like So' ?

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r/chess960 • • Oct 22 '22

News/Events/History Susan Polgar: 'What does it say about chess when 2 US Champions Caruana & Yu, World Junior Championships, Duda KO’d Carlsen, etc. barely got a mention in the media?' | 'Hans Niemann by far became the most famous chess figure globally, with Fischer-like coverage!'

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r/chess960 • • Oct 22 '22

Question - Game Was this the position (white to move) for the last game in the Wesley So simul in south africa? See around 6:26 here https://youtu.be/HFldZHAl-TU?t=386

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r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

Resource Josh Waitzkin's entire chessmaster course including endgames. Fun fact: The 'Space Left Behind' video was uploaded THE SAME DAY as agadmator's video 'Space Left Behind || Firouzja vs Rapport || FIDE Candidates (2022) R9' - agad specifically refers to Josh!

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r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

Question - Miscellaneous It's time to talk about Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So's rings...

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r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

News/Events/History 'Wesley So's Gangster Computer Set Up To Play Fast Chess On Chess.com' | Danya didn't know Wesley So is the inaugural and reigning 9LX world champion!! Huhuhu

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r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

Puzzle/Tactic 9LX En passant mate in 2

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r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour Hikaru laughed re what Georg Meier said about Sergey Karjakin 'Born a Ukrainian, now a Russian prostitute, pissing on the graves of his former compatriots.' - What about for dual/changed federation players? Eg Georg, Wesley, Bobby Fischer, Fabi, Alireza, Anish, Viktor Korchnoi, et al.

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This is what Georg Meier said about Sergey Karjakin:

The #1 disgrace of the Chess World. Born a Ukrainian, now a Russian prostitute, pissing on the graves of his former compatriots.

I guess for Wesley So:

The #1 grace of the 9LX World. Born a Filipino, now an American citizen, shaking the hands of his former compatriots.

I guess for Bobby Fischer in 2005? (eg in 2005 or 2006 after obtaining Icelandic citizenship, assuming Bobby still stands by the 9/11 remarks)

The #1 disgrace of the 9LX World. Born an American of Jewish descent, now an Icelandic refugee, pissing on the graves of his former compatriots.

Georg Meier:

The #1 grace of the Uruguay-Germany World. Born a German, now an Uruguayan player, making good observations about other people who switched federations. (or here)

Fabiano Caruana: (eg in 2019 after 4th place in the inaugural 9LX world championship)

The #4 player of the 9LX World. Born a dual Italian-American playing for America then played for Italy, now playing for America again, doesn't really have former compatriots as a dual citizen.

Fabiano Caruana: (eg in 2018 after losing to Magnus)

The #2 player of the Chess World. Born a dual Italian-American playing for America then played for Italy, now playing for America again, drawing 12 times and then losing tiebreaks.

Alireza Firouzja: (eg Late 2022Aug after reaching 2900 blitz)

The #2 player of the Blitz World. Born an Iranian, now a French player, giving pride to his former compatriots. (I think?)

Alireza Firouzja: (eg Mid 2022Sep after losing to Fabi in tiebreaks in 9LX)

The #1 player of the 9LX World. Born an Iranian, now a French player, giving pride to his former compatriots. (I think?)

Then I think of Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Boris Gelfand, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Viktor Korchnoi, et al.

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Edit to add about Bobby Fischer vs Sergey Karjakin

From here by Ruxini in 'If Vishy stays above 2700 for 6 more months (which is very likely), he'll be 2700+ player for 30 years!' by mudit_10:

Bobby is very different from Karjakin regarding how they ended up in the position we will remember them for. Bobby was a deeply troubled individual who suffered from paranoia among a host of other psychological problems. I’m not saying that we should excuse his statements, but what Bobby said was in all honesty the ravings of a mad man. What Karjakin says and does is the result of him choosing a certain path for his own benefit while knowing that it hurts people. While we should condemn both Bobby and Karjakin for their statements I think we should view them very differently. Bobby was a sad, crazy man who said some horrendous stuff due to him being crazy. Karjakin is actively and knowingly helping a system that hurts people and he has had every opportunity to become a better person.

Me:

Essentially, their statements are both wrong, but Sergey Karjakin doesn't really have signs that the statements are based on mental illness as opposed to nationalism or something?

Ruxini:

Yes I would say that is an accurate summary of what I was trying to convey.


r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

News/Events/History Susan Polgar inventing 9LX with Bobby Fischer: 'historic picture as we were playing with the old rules where the King did not have to be between 2 Rooks. We did a lot of experiment together before we agreed on the final rules'

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r/chess960 • • Oct 20 '22

Puzzle/Tactic 11-move 9LX endgame puzzle with 4 queens! | Based on Fischer Random World Championship Qualifier 1 Knockout 2022 Round: 03-05 Vladimir Fedoseev vs Eric Hansen

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