@peppie23 said in #66:
> 2) Fide has always concentrated on their core business which is standard chess.
Really? The post by GM Durarbayli is the best illustration of FIDE's "efforts". The fact that chess960 can breathe a new life into chess is beyond FIDE, or rather deliberately ignored (probably because of some considerations of a higher order). But if the point is to let chess die gradually and quietly (which might be not so bad after all, as it will release young talented brains for more essential activities), then FIDE couldn't have managed better. The only thing that remains for FIDE is just to announce it out loud: "Quit chess before you are 20 and hooked".
> Do you have any proof of this?
See e.g.
escharts.com/tournaments/chess/fide-world-fischer-random-chess-championship-2022,
escharts.com/tournaments/chess/champions-showdown-chess-9lx-field ,
escharts.com/tournaments/chess/fide-world-fischer-random-chess-championship-finals and other events using this website.
> Personally I don't get excited about 960 chess. I tried it a few times.
Let me ask you - what was the time control you've tried chess960 with? Was it blitz? Was it longer than 10 minutes per game?
As for the Serper argument: what about all these 960-positive quotes by prominent chess personalities?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess#Views_of_grandmasters> Anyway I would also like to hear why you think 960 is a solution for the computer. ... The tools to analyse openings in 960 chess are already available.
Because the positions are fresh and the patterns/tactics not known. To improve, people will have to master the game of chess on the whole in creative ways, and not just one start position with the help of Stockfish, databases and opening video courses. This will be much more of an unknown territory, much more interesting and creative - I feel sorry for those who think otherwise.
> It will be much harder to remember but in the end it will still be the same story as in standard chess in which prefab-games will be built at labs instead of at the board.
Excuse me but this is nonsense. No one will learn exact theory by heart in all the 960 start positions, knowing that drawing of lots for the start pos happens just before the round.