Also named Fischer Chess. At the beginning, the pieces are placed in the order they are drawn. The game is played according the Rules of Chess. The yearly major competition is organised during the Mainz Chess Festival. (see Fischer chess)
Anand, Viswanathan vs Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1-0 Wch Chess960 Rnd:4.2
Mainz 2007
I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now.
Viktor Kortchnoi 1986 NIC
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.
Vishy Anand 2008
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
