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
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw.
Judith Polgar FT, 2014
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov
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
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess
Siegbert Tarrasch
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
