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Segnalo per gli amanti degli #scacchi, che è in corso il molto "chiacchierato" grand slam tour nella variante #scacchi960 (alias #FischerRandom)

Per chi non lo sapesse #chess960 è una variante (IMHO stupenda), dove si azzerano tutti i secoli di teoria nelle aperture e di fatto si vede chi sa veramente giocare meglio a scacchi, banalmente estraendo a sorte la posizione dei pezzi dietro ai pedoni, tra 960 diverse posizioni

lichess.org/broadcast/freestyl

lichess.orgFreestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 - Weissenhaus | Knockout • Semi-Finals | Game 18-player knockout | 90 min + 30 sec / move | standard | Weissenhaus, Germany | Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Gukesh

The chess world is mad. Current lunacy:

Private Sponsor: I have tons of money to run an event that all the top players want to be involved in. It is a variant of chess where the pieces are mixed up and don't start in the usual positions. We call it Freestyle Chess and the winner of the event will be the Freestyle World Champion.

FIDE, International Chess Federation: We run chess, you can't do that.

Sponsor (and top players): FIDE can regulate it, the Sponsor will fund it, and the top players will compete..win-win!

FIDE: No

Bullet #chess is infuriating. I just lost a game with +16 and my opponent still having 14 seconds remaining.

Bullet is like an adrenaline shot, I just keep coming back for more even though it feels ridiculous.

Today in 1996, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in #chess for the first time.

I was a member of my High School chess team at the time, and I remember this being all anyone could talk about. Kasparov was a major major celebrity to us, and I remember even going out and buying one of those Garry Kasparov chess computers off the back of this (which is a really cool device, by the way; I still use it).

Chess problem for the week of Feb 10, 2025: Composed by Paulus Guarinus and published in "Bonus Socius" in ~1350.

White checkmate in 2

Complexity: 1/5
FEN: knn3r1/7R/1PP5/8/8/7K/8/6r1 w - - 0 1
Solution: chess.w00tness.info/problems/21.html