Product Description

We can learn a lot about fundamental chess by comparing chess960 (FRC) to traditional "chess1". By realizing the initial setups constitute an independent variable, an enormous range of comparisons becomes possible. New ideas and new perspectives were found in abundance just waiting to be discovered. One book can only scratch the surface.

Many have written about the principles of chess play for the opening, middle game, and endgame phases. Our examinations suggest some of the long accepted opening principles of chess apply only to chess1, and fail when we rearrange the pieces behind the pawns. Other more worthy opening principles apply regardless of the initial setup. The rate of middle game principle refinement would have been faster had chess960 been in vogue the past two centuries. Even the endgame is affected. This book adds the new setup phase. It describes a system of attribute analysis to guide the early moves in chess960.

Bobby Fischer proposed chess960 to reverse growing problems in chess1 concerning repetitious openings and draws. An even greater benefit of chess960 is the wonderful variety we can now see chess1 has been hiding from us all these decades. Logical positions arising from intelligent play are not awkward, but thinking them so reveals that our experiences from chess1 are more narrow than we have realized. We have been missing out on the full richness of Caissa'a fundamental chess, and that is a shame. Chess960 is just chess.

Many of the world's top 25 grandmasters are accumulating victories in annual chess960 tournaments. It is time to examine chess960 in depth to discover the strategies, tactics, and variety it adds to chess in general.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1076254 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

From the Publisher
This book was first published in January 2006.

It is perfect bound paperback, sized at 15cm X 23cm (6x9 inches).

This is a chess book with a high content quality, and it will be of interest to all chess players.