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| Nov-02-04 | | Spassky69: Karpov, maybe. But Spassky did have the worst opening preparation of any even Capablanca, world champion. So I think he would be the number one champ. Plus in the King's Gambit when hardly anyone study's it intensly, Spassky excelled with his imagination and unknown terrorities which is why I think he would have been the greatest. |
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| Nov-02-04 | | pkjohn146: I like Karpov, and am curious as to why you would pick him. I would have thought you guys would have "corrected" my error of not having more tctical players like Tal, Anand, And Adolph Anderssen, to name a few. Looking back, I would like to change my pick to Anderssen. |
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| Nov-02-04 | | Gypsy: <pkjohn146> It would be impossible to speculate about every player in history. So just by general classes: The concrete-calculation players, like Lasker, Duras, Korchnoi, would manage because of their concrete approach to concrete positions. Heavy duty home-prep guys, like Botvinnik, Portish, Polugaevsky may have problems. Brilliant technicians like Capa, Smyslov, Fischer, Karpov would absolutely flourish. Deep strategists like Steinitz, Nimzo, Petrosian would feel like in hog heaven; their advantage over rank and file GM's would increase. The same goes for the strategic magicians and/or tactical magicians like Tal, Bronstein, Geller, Larsen, or Stein. And then there are the wizards of attack, like Alekhine, Keres, Spassky, and Kasparov. I am confident that Keres and Spassky would do incredibly well because their accomplishment were 90% rooted in their tallent. But I can not quite predict AAA and Kaspa -- both are known for their tallent, but also for fannatical opening home prep; it's not clear how that would break. In general, with the exception of the Botvinnik group, the path-breakers listed above would still do extremely well. It is the journeyman GM that suddenly would not be able to simply draft by being current on the latest opening theory. On the other hand, you would probably see a return of the great "ammateurs", players that have life outside of the tournament hall, players like Vidmar, Maroczy, Euwe, Najdorf... And, of course, all this is IMKO (in my kibitzing opinion). |
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| Nov-02-04 | | Gypsy: As for Karpov specifically: Like Capablanca, Karpov evolved his play over the board from an ever present, very general, higher-level principle that applies to most forms of chess. Like Capablanca he thought very hard over the board. And like AAA, he was quietly fanatical and willing to endure pain to squeeze out a victory from objectively even game. (Unlike Capa,
he was never in rush to get to a game of tenis.) |
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| Nov-04-04 | | Knight13: The position 813 is not for a castle position at all! By the way, how do you castle in postion 813 anyway? |
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| Nov-04-04 | | pkjohn146: If you're castling on the king side, get the bishop and knight out of the way. Looks like you're gonna have to fianchetto that bishop. on the queen side, b2-b3 looks like the quickest way to get your bishop and queen mobile. You do know that the final castling position is the same as in standard chess, right? |
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| Nov-04-04 | | pkjohn146: I wonder if anyone's tried to figure out how to play fischerandom checkers yet? |
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| Nov-18-04 | | Knight13: How the heck is it going to be like castling queen side in position 441? |
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| Nov-18-04 | | pkjohn146: <How the heck is it going to be like castling queen side in position 441?> I'm not sure I understand your question, Knight13. This seems like an easy position to O-O-O. Move your e-pawn, scoot your Bishop out, and you don't even have to move your knight yet because it isn't blocking your rook or king. I have the feeling though that I have missed the point of your question. |
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| Nov-19-04 | | Knight13: <pkjohn146> I don't know. The position of Fischerandom I played on online was like this: King on b1 and Q on c1 and Rook on g1 and it says it was position 441. That's why I asked how to castle king side with the rook that far away. |
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| Nov-19-04 | | chess dude: do you actually play fischerandom on this website? |
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| Nov-19-04 | | pkjohn146: <Knight13> The way I understand it, no matter where the King and Rooks are, when you castle the catled position is always the same as in standard Chess. btw, who is AAA? |
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| Nov-19-04 | | Knight13: Who is AAA? |
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Nov-19-04
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| Nov-19-04 | | pkjohn146: <Who is AAA?>
Yeah, that's what I want to know. <Gypsy> referred to him. <chess dude>, I wish we could, but we cannot. |
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| Nov-19-04 | | Gypsy: Sorry about that: AAA = Alexander Alexeyevich Alekhine |
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| Nov-23-04 | | CardinalFlight: Play Fischer Random vs a computer!
http://sourceforge.net/project/show... It has castling rules in FRC. Also, this free program can play many other chess variants including the one someone mentioned about having a knight + bishop and knight + rook piece. |
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| Nov-23-04 | | Whitehat1963: I wonder how a great GM like Kasparov, or perhaps Fischer himself would do against a computer like when playing Fisher Random. I suspect the computer would win because it doesn't need to memorize opening theory to play well. |
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| Nov-27-04 | | CardinalFlight: See some chess960 games at
http://www.chesstigers.de/index.php...
It is in german, but it is easy enough to navigate to find games. Their pgn viewer works even if the king and rooks are not on their usual starting locations. |
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Dec-02-04
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http://www.chesstigers.org/alte_dat... and you the reader can see how much exposure (at least in Germany) chessfans are trying to give the game. " About 500 players will once again make a pilgrimage to Mainz to move the pieces on the chessboard. The professionals will risk everything to qualify as the next challenger of the Chess960 World Champion. On Thursday 5th and Friday 6th the two-day Chess 960 FiNet Open will be played and on Saturday and Sunday (7th and 8th August) the famous Ordix Open will take place. The prize fund in the most famous Rapid Chess Open of the world, in which over 100 titleholders will take part, has been increased. All together 35,000 Euros can be won in the two open tournaments. The distribution of single prizes for both tournaments is based on the relative number of participants of the two tournaments. The relation of the prizes for both tournaments is calculated on the number of participants following the formula: participants Chess960 Open/expected number of participants Ordix Open. It is important to register early to secure a place in the strong and popular Open tournaments. Simuls of Shirov (40 boards) and Svidler (Chess960 on 20 boards) as well as two exhibition fights of Anand and Aronian will open the five-day chess festival on August 4th. It has become a tradition, that already the Chess Classic opening day is a spectacular happening, but organizer Hans-Walter Schmitt is not willing to reveal this well kept secret." --from the ChessBase Article |
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| Dec-04-04 | | acirce: Kasparov answers a couple of questions on FRC and it goes in line with what I quoted from another interview with him earlier on this page. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
<Question: from Fischer to Fischer Random. Chess theory is evolving at hurricane pace. Do you think “Random-960” is the future of the game?Kasparov: I don’t know. I heard that the idea had been recently debated in Germany regarding the possibility of playing not all 960 possible positions, but to downsize them in number to 20-30 positions. Simply pick a position and play it for a year. Next year a different position. In actual fact from the 960 positions 95% of them, frankly speaking, are poison to your eyes! The rest, to a large extent, satisfy our understanding of "chess geometry”. If such an idea were to be materialized, it would make sense. For instance one could declare a week before the tournament: we are going to play this and this position. You will have some time to prepare. You can’t be prepared seriously, of course, but new ideas will emerge not on the first but on the forth or fifth move. In order to realize this we need the political will and a different environment in chess. Right now there’s a kind of chaos in chess that to speak of any radical changes in chess would be premature. Question: Your answer sounds more like a recipe: how to save Fischer Random! Kasparov: This is not a question of saving or advocating Fischer Random, it is the call of our times. The volume of opening theory has reached threatening proportions and calls for need to find a way to alleviate the pressure of the endless opening databases. Already today your database contains several million games. It seems to me that Fischer Random is one possible way to resolve the problem. I just heard about this and also that the reaction of chess players was, strange as it may seem, negative on the whole. From my viewpoint Fischer Random is entirely acceptable. Put up a certain position and play it for a year. We could put it on a server and organize tournaments accordingly. It goes without saying that a year later this whole “theory” that has developed will be of no use to anyone: move a single piece and the entire position changes radically. But at the same time, to entirely exclude preparation from the play is unimaginable. Chess in that case will turn into a very strange spectacle.> |
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| Dec-07-04 | | CaseusLambo: I am new to this site and I am having trouble with Fischer Random. Is there a computer opponent here? Or are these positions meant only for the assembley and play on a seperate board with a human opponent in the "real" world? Also, does chessgames.com have a list of simple to complex chess problems (mate in 2, 3,4, ect.)? |
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Dec-08-04
| | nasmichael: <CaseusLambo><I am new to this site and I am having trouble with Fischer Random. Is there a computer opponent here?> There is no opponent here; you can play a live game at the ICC (www.chessclub.com) or at FICS (www.freechess.org)--or you can play a correspondence game at www.schemingmind.com, where tournaments are offered.
<Or are these positions meant only for the assembley and play on a seperate board with a human opponent in the "real" world?> Yes; you may use them to see all the opening positions, and play a friend who may go for it. Check Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fische...), among many other places, for the rules and castling procedures. See www.chessvariants.org for more. <Also, does chessgames.com have a list of simple to complex chess problems (mate in 2, 3,4, ect.)?> Now that would be nice. Other than the home page, with the puzzle of the day (which does include mate hunts and material and tempo advantage oriented puzzles) giving you an opportunity to work out chess problems, and finding the answer, the players, and the game information, as well as commentary by the chess-loving public. Check the home page, and there is also a link to other puzzles in the past. A fountain of puzzles from which to choose. |
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| Dec-09-04 | | enigmaticcam: For those of you with Fritz, Chessmaster, etc, you can setup a position mimicking one from Fischer Random and start the game from there. The only difference is that you can't castle. |
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| Dec-17-04 | | shortsight: <enigmaticcam> with fritz8, there's an option for fischer random chess (FRC). no need to do position setup. i'm not sure if a computer will beat a season GM in FRC. i find it easier to beat a computer in FRC though. maybe without opening book, computers just lost focus! |
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