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I only want to play chess with Beth Harmon . . . and I don’t even play chess. I’ll just sit and look at her.
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Has anyone ever played "Fischer Random Chess"?
The game is a variation of chess invented by Bobby Fischer and is also known as Chess960 because there are 960 random starting positions. The set-up is goverend by a set of rules, a write up and description can be found in Wikipedia, under the title "Fisc...
The beautiful game
I was a serious student of the game growing up, and still appreciate the creative beauty that can be witnessed at the higher levels of play. I still have a big collection of chess sets that i’ve collected from tournaments around the world, but they are al...
Fan of Bobby Fischer’s chess. But not the man. I watch all Magnus’ games on Chess24.
I did visit Bobby’s grave. ...
I remember following the World Chess Championship in 1972...
where Fischer defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR, in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland. As a kid I played a lot of chess with my brothers in the 1960s, but haven't played in years. I have been known to watch 将棋 (Shōgi) and 囲碁 (Go) matches on TV. 藤井 聡太 (...
I don't know anything about Fisher's random chess...
... But I always play chess randomly so I lose most of the time!
I played tournament for a short period of time..
I remember one moment in particular. I was under time pressure the game started to accelerate and drew a crowd. I was sweating head down and giving it every brain cell I had. When I was finally checkmated I slowly picked my head up and looked across the b...
too funny...
I use to subscribe to a newspaper that had end-game puzzles... black to mate in three etc. That was always fun and I could play against myself. Today I enjoy the challenge of a difficult sudoku puzzle ; ) Casey
