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Fischer wants to play chess
ACP [Thu Mar 31st, 15:17]
According to the Russian major news agency RIA 'News', chess ex-champion Bobby Fischer, who has recently settled in Iceland, is planning to visit Serbia again.
Janos Kubat, Fischer's colleague and friend, informed on Wednesday press-conference in Belgrade that Fischer wants to visit a small town Kaniza, where he lived for 8 months in 1993 (located on a border between Serbia and Hungary) to play a chess match.
Kubat said that he has already selected two hotels in Kaniza that are sutable for a match with Pal Benko - the Hungarian-born American who currently lives in Budapest.
'I have already found a sponsor. Now it fully depends on Icelandic authorities permitting Fischer to come to Serbia', - said Kubat.
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Please, please, please be true.
This would be great on so many fronts. It would also be huge for Fischer Random Chess, which I would love to see gain popularity.
Originally posted by EinZweiDreiIf Fischer were to play something other than shuffle chess, it would be something.
http://www.chess-players.org/eng/index.html
Fischer wants to play chess
ACP [Thu Mar 31st, 15:17]
According to the Russian major news agency RIA 'News', chess ex-champion Bobby Fischer, who has recently settled in Iceland, is planning to visit Serbia again.
Janos Kubat, Fischer's colleague and friend, informed on Wednesday press-conference in ...[text shortened]... onts. It would also be huge for Fischer Random Chess, which I would love to see gain popularity.
Otherwise, his tirade in favor of so-called FRC appears but another symptom of his mental ill-health. FRC may have some appeal as a chess variant, but the argument that it is necessary because chess itself is "played out" is utter nonsense.
Fisher's play in 1972 was less than steller; although his psychological manuevers were clever. His refusal to face Karpov reflects a deep-seated fear of losing that already had been observed in the late 1960s. His "rematch" with Spassky in 1992, in addition to bringing upon himself the ire of the Clinton administration, ultimately acted upon by Bush the Younger, demnstrated that he and Boris were both well beyond their prime (even though either one could beat most of us in a blindfold simul.)
Garry Kasparov had this to say about FRC (Fischer condemned the comments):
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.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2064
Originally posted by Ouermyhte960 starting positions--most horribly illogical; some tweaks of castling rules (impossible in a large number of the 960 possible positions0.
slightly off topic, but cd someone explain the difference with Fischer Random Chess?
marcus
AKA shuffle chess, a better name as it does not credit a madman
