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1 Beginner 2 Intermediate 3 Advanced A) Introduction 1A a) Is chess960 for me? Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? Chess960? I'm Hooked! Thanks, Bobby! b) Is chess960 for everyone? 'Fischerandom Chess' or 'Chess960'? Fischer Explains the Rules of Fischer Random [when?] Chess960 FAQ Some Arguments Against Chess960 More Arguments Against Chess960 Shall We Play Chess960? [book by Gligoric] Two Analogies The Path of Bliss? ['not to have to cram up on a ton of variations'] Capablanca and Chess960 Top 10 Myths About Chess960 Another Analogy It's Not About Short Draws, Garry Nakamura - Aronian Video c) Selecting a start position. See 'A Database of Chess960 Start Positions' Setting up a Chess960 Position DGT960 Chess Clock Special Chess960 Dice See 'Chess960 Waits for No One'. The Chess960 Wheel of Fortune Non-random Fischer Random A Better Pawn Method 2A A Database of Chess960 Start Positions [also 1A: selecting a random position] Introduction to Chess960 Geometry Chess960 PGN Differences Between Chess and Chess960 Randomness in Chess960 Start Positions More on the Concept of Distance 'I'd be on my very own from the first move' Chess960 Point and Counterpoint Naming Things The Clock Is/Isn't Ticking A Logical Contradiction A Chess960 Almanac Chess Isn't Boring Shall We Play Amar's Opening? Two and a Half Blogs Kasparov's Modern Chess Commentating the Opening in London 'I wish there were more opportunities to play' Wading in Opening Theory SP518 Status Chess960 Better than Traditional Chess? Chess960 Database: Part I, Part II, Part III It's Not Unusual Clinging to the Past Doom and Gloom? Lichess, First Look Lichess, Second Look Lichess, Third Look ChessCube, Comments on Chess960 FICS / ICC / Lichess, Comments on Chess960 Chess.com, Comments on Chess960 Chess.com, More Comments on Chess960 ChessRex, Comments on Chess960 ChessRex, More Comments on Chess960 Lechenicher, RemoteSchach, SchemingMind Know Your Competition CHESSIS2C960 Visually CHESSIS2C960 Chess.com Illegal for Chess, Legal for Chess960 3A Theoretical Advantage in Chess960 Start Positions A Followup, an Error, and an Insight Advantage in Chess960 Start Positions Revisited Dvoretsky on Chess960 A Highbrow Dismissal of Chess960 CCM 2003 Alas for GM Grischuk and for Chess960 Chess960 Waits for No One The Impact of Chess960 on Chess Publishing Not Everyone Likes Chess960 Setting Chess Back 100 Years Setting Chess on Course for the Next 100 Years Steering into an Iceberg Recent Comments Correspondence Chess Ratings and Chess960 Waving a Yellow Flag First Move Diversity in Chess960 Pieces, Start Squares, and Scores Of Knights and Start Squares Random Position, Random Results? World Champions on Chess960 A Half-Tempo Advantage B) History 1B 'Ruining Chess with Prearranged Games' Fischer Announces Fischerandom Fischer's Rules of Fischerandom Fischerandom's Inauspicious Start The First Recorded Fischerandom Game? Who Is the 'Father of Chess960'? Fischer: 'The *Old* Chess Is Dead' The Rampant Expansion of Theory Brady on Fischer Random Fischer Compares Chess960 to Puffed Wheat 'Me and Bobby Fischer' and Chess960 When Vishy Met Bobby 'Can I use this name "Fischer Chess"?' An Aborted Announcement Kasparov *Did* Play Chess960 Carlsen and Chess960 Remembering Bobby Foraging the 'News Groups' 'Reform Chess' Carlsen Played Chess960 Carlsen's First Chess960 Move? Fischer and 'Wild Variant 22' More 'Me and Bobby Fischer' Chessmaniac, Comments on Chess960 2B World Championship Opening Preparation The Origin of the Initial Position in Chess More on the Initial Position in Chess The Origin of Castling in Chess More on Castling in Chess Davidson on the King's Leap Murray on the King's Leap, Spanish Style Murray on the King's Leap, Italian Style Chess960 Is an Evolution of Chess No Preparation Required C960 & Fullchess Design the Chess960 World Championship 3B Chess Classic Mainz 2008 (CCM8) Chess960 @ Chess Classic Mainz Chess960 World Championships CCM PGN Game Scores Chess960 @ CCM9 Chess Tiger Preview: Chess Classic Mainz 2009 CCM9: Nakamura, Grischuk, and Rybka More from Mainz 2009 Mr. Chess Classic Mainz Pictures of a Fischer Random Precursor Chess960 Fever in Little Sweden Women, Chess960, and Video More Women, Chess960, and Video (Almost) No Chess960 @ CCM10 No Chess960 @ Doeberl 'Hardly Ever Played Chess960 Before' Chess960 'as a Spectator's Sport' Chess960 Simuls @ Mainz Chess960 Tournaments Are Rare Birds Banska Stiavnica 2010 Rare Bird Sightings Rare Bird Tracking More on Chess960 Engines Rybka @ Mainz No Place for Chess960 'Alles muss raus!' Rare Bird Tracking, Summer 2011 Chess960 Kings and Queens A Few More Chess960 Resources Rare Birds 2012 2001 Leko - Adams on Chessgames.com Chess960 Live on the Small Screen More from Moscow 2014 Rare Birds 2014 C) Castling 1C Chess960 on Chesscube.com Learn to Castle Correctly (Rules) Learn to Castle Correctly (Mechanics) Let's Check the Rules Castling Nomenclature 'Bizarre Castling Rules'? A New Page, a TOC, and a Logo ['Castling Patterns Explained'] 2C Castling: A Rook-only Example Castling: The Longest Possibility Arbitrariness in Chess Rules Castling Patterns Visualized When Castling Undevelops a Rook Castling into an Attack 3C Castling Stats Castling Too Soon Pros & Cons for Castling Deferring the Castling Option Castling Diversity in Chess960 More on Displacement and Distance D) Theory 1D Chess960 Game Explorer Lesson in Chess960 Opening Patterns Make the Obvious Moves First Really Short Games Chess960 Strategy 2D A Framework for Chess960 Opening Theory Undefended Pawns in Chess960 Start Positions Chess960 Opening Theory Chess960 Twins Comments on Chess960 Opening Theory Pyramids and Dropouts [see 'notes for players who have never played through a chess960 position'] First Move Advantage in Chess960 Grischuk - Mamedyarov, Mainz 2009 ['Here is an explanation, as I see it, of those first moves.'] What Are the Odds? GMs vs. 2100-2200 (I) GMs vs. 2100-2200 (II) Naturally Weak Pawns Four Weak Pawns Four Weak Pawns (SP115) Four Weak Pawns (SP835) Knights before Bishops? Lasker on Basic Opening Principles Count the Developing Moves Move Order in the Opening Chess960 Instructional Videos More Chess960 Instructional Videos Traditional Development Patterns Top GMs and Traditional Development Patterns Questions of Theory Questions of Chess960 Theory Yusupov's 'General Principles of Opening Play' Fine's 'General Principles' of Opening Theory Rowson's 'Three Types of Theory' Pawn Power in Chess960 Chess960 on YouTube's ChessNetwork Chess960 with YouTube's Kingscrusher Kings and Queens on Chess960 Krush's Advice Some Awkward Choices Chess960 Enthusiasm ['analyze opening sequences for all 960 start positions'] The Myth of the Corner Bishop The Barbecue Positions A Clash of Styles Disruption of Balance The KQR Corner Family Pieces in the Corner Square Counting Viable First Moves Choosing a First Move Choosing a First Move - Part 2 The Initial Positional Considerations The Kramnik Formation The Double Kramnik Formation 3D An Exercise in Chess960 Positional Thinking How Top Players Treat the Same Chess960 Position Lasker's Table of Opening Values Chess Engines Don't Always Get It Small Opening Moves Can Have Big Consequences What's the Logic? A Dubious First Move with Black A Chess960 Catastrophe Attention to the Chess960 Center Four Cornered Bishops Extravagant Openings What Makes an Opening Extravagant? Extravagant Openings in Chess960 Queens Lead the Attack Tartakower and Chess960 Strange Moves, Strange Game Nakamura vs. Aronian at Mainz 2009 Tiger on the Prowl Castling Misjudged Symmetry Misjudged Central vs. Flank Expansion Mystery Moves Gambling Moves The Seeds of Victory? Strategical vs. Tactical Openings Chess960 Universität GM Yusupov : Lesson 1 Switching Bishops and Knights A Nakamura Sac Attack Oversight or Intentional? NR****Q* & *Q****RN Parallel Games Parallel Games II Svidler - Leko, Mainz 2003 Watch out for ****KRBN Chess960 Chaos 'Fianchetto the Light Squared Bishop' 'A Tempo and a Half in a Symmetrical Position' An Early Queen Sortie No Time for Shelter Chess960 Needs Fresh Eyes The Best Chess960 Weapon Never Move a Pawn Twice in the Opening? Opening Logic Sets the Course Extreme Barbecues Ignoring the Positional Handicap Twin Research Initial Pawn Moves and Castling An Attack Is Playing to Lose? Proof of Concept with HarryO Problem with the SP or with the Engines? Games Between Skillful Players A Difficult SP for Black The KID Family The KID Family Goes the Distance Dynamic Imbalances Are Instructive A Two Pawn Gambit for Black Queen Safety in the Center Opening Queen Swap in the Corner Activating the Corner Queen Year-end News from LSS Thinking Time Can Be a Guide An Engine-to-Engine Opening Nakamura's Chess960 Openings Chess960 'Showdown' in St.Louis Nakamura's 1.g4/b4 Nakamura's 1.h4/a4 Another Difficult SP for Black SP864 BBQRKRNN - Two Trials SP864 BBQRKRNN - Other Opinions Breaking the Symmetry E) Notes 1E Chess960 Book Titles Chess960 Rules Formalized by FIDE? Chess960 @ Chess.com Christmas @ Schemingmind.com Chess960 in Andorra 'Fischer Random Chess', the Music Chess960 @ Google Chess960 Groups @ Chess.com Chess960 @ Chessville.com Top-25 Chess960 Resources How *NOT* to Play Chess960 Stats and More Stats How I Spent My Free Day Chess960 Online Play Sites Chess960 Short Cuts Chess960 on the iPhone Chess960 Caveat Emptor Chess960 Interest on Chess.com Who's Interested in Chess960? No Comment? 2E Chess960 Engines Ten Tabiyas Finding Games by Good Chess960 Players CCRL Discussion Board The Bernanke Positions Random Associations Who Says 'Chess960 Array'? Calculate SP Numbers in Your Head Chess960 Position Generators on the Web Another Chess960 Position Generator Monstrous Opening Preparation Chess960 Position Generator Revisited Dog-Tired from Memorizing Openings Fischer Random Bughouse Chess960 Encounters, Past & Future Second Looks More Online Correspondence Play Ducking Chess960 Making Money from Chess960? Stockfish, the Strong TCEC Season 6 - Chess960 3E Impediments to Chess960 Acceptance Chess Ratings as a Predictor of Chess960 Skill Some Numbers on Chess Book Publishing Whistling Past the Graveyard? Kasparov's Chess960 Proposal Winter's (Chess960?) Proposal Practical Issues for Hosting Chess960 Why Not Announce Positions Beforehand? A Few Novel Ideas DigitalGameTechnology.com Advanced Chess960 @ Chess.com More on Computer Assistance The More the Better More Chess960 on Chessgames.com Onward and Upward The Lechenicher SchachServer Organizer's Hat Finding Top ICC Chess960 Players Elite ICC Chess960 Players The Week in Chess960 Notable Chess960 Players Who Needs FIDE? Shall We Organize Chess960 Tournaments? *** X) Admin 1X Chess960 Blogging Leaves Home [May 2009] First Post, New Blog A Holiday Weekend Means 'Keep It Simple' [new category] Google Goes Gaga What's the Capital of Rhineland-Palatinate? Posts with Label 'Castling' Have a Merry Chess960 Christmas! Posts with Label 'History' Happy 2011! Label 'Engines' Getting Organized [new labels] 2X Blog Posts Cross Referenced to Start Positions A Simple Chess960 Database for Tracking SPs Populating the Database Searching for BNRKNBRQ Label 'CCRL' Updated Database of SPs Updated Database of SPs (2011-08) Updated Database of SPs (2012-03) Top Posts of All Time Updated Database of SPs (2013-01) Updated Database of SPs (2013-10) Static Blog Pages, Chess960 Version Updated Database of SPs (2014-10) 3X Chess960 1-2-3 [1/7]