FIDE wants to change the format for chess!!!!!!!!!!
I was a bit surprised when I heard this but FIDE wants to change the chess format!!!!!!!!!Apart from a few minor modifications, the game has remained unchanged for over a thousand years. Chess has now become less interesting so FIDE wants to change the format!
FIDE has realised that all the grand masters prepare their first few moves and play them in under a minute.
After half an hour the opponent will resign the game! He will have recognized that his opponent had a prepared line that is completely winning.
So what has FIDE decided to do to alleviate the situation? Make use of a trend that organisers have been experimenting with, more and more often, in the past few years: Freestyle Chess – also known as Fischer Random or Chess 960. This form of chess has shown how the game can proceed with both players thinking creatively about every move from the start of the game.
That means we will get ten positions, selected from all possible Freestyle positions, with the exception of the traditional starting position, which is Fischer Random position 518, and its mirror position.
In any tournament or Open, thirty minutes before the start of each round, one of the ten positions will be selected at random and announced to the participants. This means that the players will have half an hour to prepare for their game with the starting position that has been selected.
This will help people to be able to play in any situation.
It might be time to say bye to standard chess and to say hello to Chess 960.
