A SAMPLE FISCHER RANDOM CHESS OPENING. NOTE THE NON-STANDARD POSITIONS OF THE CHESS PIECES
Posted on 11/03/2019 7:06:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Wesley So stunned World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen to win the inaugural World Fishcer Random Chess Championship at Henie Onstad Center in Norway Sunday (Manila time).
The Filipino-American grandmaster, who now represents the United States, swept Carlsen 13.5-2.5 and started off the match defending with the black.
“I’m very happy, it’s my favorite type of chess and it hasn’t been popular until the last couple of years,” So told Chess.com. “Magnus had a bad couple of days; if it was regular chess he would’ve beaten me easily.”
“To me, mainly chess is art—that’s why I like Fishcer Random a lot; there’s a lot of creativity,” added So.
The late World Champion Bobby Fishcer invented the Fishcer Random and its difference from standard chess is that the pieces in the back rank are randomly shuffled instead of having set positions.
So said he liked Fishcer Random better than the standard game since it allows him to conceptualize moves and attacks in each game instead of memorizing set pieces.
“The trouble with real chess is that people can memorize up to 40, sometimes more sometimes less,” said So. “I don’t like memorizing moves that I don’t understand. Here in Fischer Random you get a game literally from the beginning.”
Fischer Random Chess, also known as Chess960, is a variation of the game of chess invented by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer. Fischer announced this new game variation on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fischer Random Chess employs the same board and pieces as standard chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized, following certain rules. The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization of openings impracticable; players instead must rely more on their spontaneous talent and creativity over the board.
Randomizing the main pieces had long been known as Shuffle Chess; however, Fischer Random Chess introduces new rules regarding the initial random set up, "preserving the dynamic nature of the game by retaining bishops of opposite colours for each player and the right to castle for both sides". The result is 960 unique possible starting positions.
In 2008, FIDE added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess.
The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019, was held in 2019, bringing more prominence to the variant.
They call him “The Crusher”
So?
The late World Champion Bobby Fishcer invented the Fishcer Random and its difference from standard chess is that the pieces in the back rank are randomly shuffled instead of having set positions.
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And you still get to castle.
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I’ll have to try it. Looks interesting. I think both should start with the same line up though to take out the luck of the draw element.
What does religion have to do with chess?
If the guy uses it to get his head in the right place, I guess that’s cool. Using his fame to proselytize is his business.
I simply don’t care.
Chinese mestizo.
To clarify, I should have said that I like the fact that both sides get the same alignment.
Do they ever start off with the back rows as mirror images? That is, in the sample board shown, for white, with the queen at a1, a rook at b1, etc?
well, okay they are mirror images as shown, so I mean reversed mirror images (as if reflected through a center point on the board).
Does the same randomized setup apply to both players, or is each color randomized separately? If the latter has not yet been invented, I hereby announce a new variant: Sphinx’s Double Random Dumb Luck Chess. My version would finally bring chess into the orbit of real wargames, in which starting positions are usually asymmetrical.
Well, my first impression is this is the greatness of America... we get the best of the best of the world, e.g., Einstein, Marconi, and now Filipinos like Wesley So.
The 3 best American chess players are Filipino, Italian and Japanese.
On the other hand, we also tend to get the worst of the world (e.g. the Boston Marathon bombers).
Toppling Magnus is no easy feat. But I guess it’s like boxing or any other martial art or any sport for that matter... There’s always going to be somebody who can kick your butt no matter how good you are.
And for those interested, here is a board generator.
I think so many moves ahead when I play chess, you would have to start in the 13th century just to beat me.
Congrats to Wesley
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