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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 (Fujii Sōta) has caused a bit of a stir in recent years... he's a professional Shōgi player ranked 8-dan and currently holds the Kisei and Ōi titles. Sōta is the youngest person to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shōgi Association and one of only five players to become professional while still a junior high school student... he won his first 29 games as a professional to set a new record for most consecutive games won.
Casey
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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