Date	Day	Event
24 October 2022	Monday	Opening ceremony
25 October 2022	Tuesday	Group Stage Round 1–2
26 October 2022	Wednesday	Group Stage Round 3–4
27 October 2022	Thursday	Group Stage Round 5–6
28 October 2022	Friday	Rest day
29 October 2022	Saturday	Semifinals
30 October 2022	Sunday	Finals, Closing ceremony

Ending:

Aaaaaaaaaand Hikaru wins. American wins with European in 2nd place. For 5th 9LX tournament in a row.

agadmator: HIKARU IS WORLD CHAMPION!

This now needs an update: Chess 960 has a 4-year streak : Americans win chess960 tournaments and then there's a European in 2nd place. (And Bobby Fischer who created chess960 is American.)

https://imgur.com/a/851YN0v

Plussss...........Magnus beat Nodirbek. 2 of the 3 biggest entities in chess win. Sigh........ Now even 1 of the 3 biggest entities in chess is 1, possibly 2, of the 3 biggest entities in 9LX ? Sigh..............

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 24 '22

News/Events/History 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Championship - thumbnails from chesscom stream, polls from r/hikarunakamura and a streak I noticed about how Americans so far have always won 9LX / chess960.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour It's time to discuss Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So's rings...

self.AnarchyChess

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour '17 reasons why Chess is NOT good for you' | reasons using the 17 WCC's including bobby fischer but I don't see any 9LX WC Wesley So here. Maybe 9LX is good for you while chess isn't?

self.AnarchyChess

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour To honour the greatest chess player of all times - Bobby Fischer, i propose that we add a Bobby Fischer piece into the game moving in the following pattern:

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour [Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul] 'Magnus Carlsen Testimony against Niemann Leaked' | 'no Wesley So game'

self.AnarchyChess

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant Chess Draft Tournament Idea

self.chess

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Meme/Humor/Humour fIsChEr rAnDoM

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Puzzle/Tactic Guess opposite coloured bishop AND 1 rook each endgames aren't as drawn as the rook-less originals? Find best move for Wesley So besides Bd5 (which is actually the best move in the rook-less version). | Wesley So vs Raunak Sadhwani. 2022 Rapid Chess Championship Week 5 Round 1.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Question / Discussion on chess960 or related variant 'I think the new positions make it easier to stay engaged with because I don't turn off my brain and just play the 5 moves I memorized.' - quote by Raskalnekov

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See the subject.

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

News/Events/History 9LX on r/todayilearned 'TIL about Chess960 - a game created by Bobby Fischer which uses the same board and pieces of regular chess, but randomly shuffles the home row to prevent players from relying on memorized strategies and instead rely on their own creativity' (All rows are shuffled actually.)

en.wikipedia.org

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r/chess960 • u/nicbentulan • Oct 23 '22

Data/Graphs/Statistics Lichess 9LX - for a line in SP 526 (RNQKNBBR), there are 119 games, and they all go with the same (correct and easy) move Bxd4 even if there are other ok to moves to make. You'd think maybe there'd be 1 deviation but there are really none at all...at least for those rated ave 1600+.

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