Javier Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Javier: I.M. Pain has a written an article on the Mainz Chess Tournament which includes an annotated blitz game and a chess960 game played by 2 GMs: The Mainz Chess Classic is designed by founder Hans Walter Schmitt to provide maximum customer entertainment and he is always rewarded with large audiences. The event features both Rapid Chess and Chess960 which is similar to the chess variant known as Fischer Random in which the pieces are jumbled up on the first two ranks at the beginning of the game rendering conventional chess opening theory completely useless. Levon Aronian of Armenia was the winner of the Finet Chess960 Open and was crowned Chess960 World Champion. What I find quite amusing about this kind of chess is just how often the position rapidly starts to resemble a game from a normal opening. Here only ... View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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