Saturday, February 14, 2015
Chess 960
?This is a variant of chess, created by Bobby Fischer. I find it fascinating whenever you take a popular game, with established centuries-old rules, and you create a new game out of it.
Fischer's goal was to eliminate what he considered the complete dominance of openings preparation in chess today, replacing it with creativity and talent. His belief about Russians fixing all international games also provided motivation. In a situation where the starting position was random it would be impossible to fix every move of the game. Since the "opening book" for 960 possible opening systems would be too difficult to devote to memory, the players must create every move originally. From the first move, both players must devise original strategies and cannot use well-established patterns. Fischer believed that eliminating memorized book moves would level the playing field.
So, I like that. He sees what he thinks is a problem, the "playbook rules" reduce creativity, and then an additional byproduct, that you can have match-fixing, and handles it with the obvious: why must all the pieces always start in the same position? I love any imagination or creativity along these lines, foregoing the straightjacket of inertial reasoning, under the guise of hallowed tradition, and comes up with something potentially better.
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