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George Duke wrote on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:38 AM UTC:
In 1996 this was one of the first 100 or so CVPage posts ever. Some news and link for the 2006 Mainz Classic, which includes Chess 960 championship, appear then in these ''all comments'' by Thomas McElmurry.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 12:08 AM UTC:
I think there is enough worldwide interest in Chess 960, and not only at very high levels, so a well organized World Championship should be a possible idea, it is only the need of intrepid sponsors and federative initiatives, and I believe there are also good possibilities for it. Pretty horizon for this variant.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 11:13 PM UTC:
Aronian won FiNet Rapid Chess960 Open 2005, that is why he is challenger.
there is no doubt the winner of this tournament is next challenger.
yeah the time limit is bad, but what can you do, the sponsors pay the
money so ... fr is not main chess, even normal chess not so long ago found
their wc with terrible time controls. At least, this is better than
nothing.
Hey Moro is in it, he must be a big chance to win, that would be great to
see him next challenger!

Andy wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 06:55 PM UTC:
I also think it is unfortunate that world championshop of Chess960 is played at rapids time control. Qualify of chess would improve, and title of world champion would mean more if games were played at classical time control.

Andy wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 04:30 PM UTC:
Perhaps winner of FiNet Rapid Chess960 Open held at Mainz each year is challenger for championship match in following year, but I am unable to find confirmation of this.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 01:09 PM UTC:
Man-machine Chess960 exhibition: Svidler played yesterday against the computer world champion Spike, and the result was a draw. Radjabov was beated by Shredder.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 01:06 AM UTC:
It seems to be correct, Svidler-Aronian goes on 17th., today have been played other programmed games of the classic. I´m not sure how legitimate is this Chess960 world championship, but, officially, nobody has expressed a different opinion, and the presence od Svidler as defending champion is a good indicative.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 01:00 AM UTC:
yes you have to win a tournament in order to challenge the champ the
following year, this has been going for awhile, anyone can enter, it's
all fair enough. What is the reason you don't see this as making a fr
champ?
 
I like Moro the best, he is the best natural chess player in the world,
not afaird to sac (like kramnik lol), i think he would be the best at fr
too, but does he go in these tournaments, you would think he would, will
have to look. But, just being a gm does not mean you play fr chess, maybe
moro doesn't like it.

actually, thinking about kramnik, has he ever played fr chess? 
i highly doubt he likes it, their is no opening book, 
kramnik wouldn't even be able to play it ha ha

Andy wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 10:56 PM UTC:
<> There has been no such tournament. I follow chess news closely and such tournament would have been big event if won by player of Aronian standing. I am glad to see Chess960 events being played, it is positive development, but Chess960 championship pedigree is not strong because challengers are simply chosen by event organizers.

Thomas McElmurry wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 10:39 PM UTC:
The Mainz Chess Classic has begun today (or perhaps yesterday, since as I write this it's already tomorrow in Germany), but according to the official site, the Chess960 championship won't begin until Thursday.

Of course this match alone can tell us only about Svidler and Aronian, but this match is not taking place out of the blue. Lékó became the first Chess960 champion by defeating Adams in 2001. Svidler won the title from Lékó in 2003, and has defended it against Aronian in 2004 and against Almasi in 2005. I've read that the challenger must qualify by winning an open tournament, but it's harder than it should be to find such information from official sources.

It seems to me that Svidler's status as Chess960 champion is more legitimate than that of either Kramnik or Topalov as Chess champion.


Andy wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 01:41 PM UTC:
I will not consider this the Chess960 world championship until there is process that includes all grandmasters. This is simply match between Svidler, who expresses support for Chess960, and other willing grandmaster. This match says nothing about whether Svidler is better Chess960 player than Leko, Adams, Kramnik, Anand, etc. I personally would bet on Morozevich if he would play.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 01:05 PM UTC:
Mainz, Germany: In a few minutes, the world chess 960 championship will
begin. Also, three other world championships:
1.-Clerical Medical Chess960 World Championship
Peter Svidler of Russia faces Levon Aronian of Armenia in an eight-game
Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
2.-Grenkeleasing Rapid World Champioship
World's number two (and rapid chess specialist) Vishy Anand, against
19-year-old Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, number 11 in the world
rankings, in a rapid chess match over eight games.
Aronian vs Svidler in their Chess960 match in Mainz two years ago
3.-Clerical Medical Chess960 World Championship for women, seniors and
juniors
These are eight-game Chess960 (Fischer Random) matches between Elisabeth
Pähtz and Alexandra Kosteniuk (Women); Vastimil Hort and Lajos Portisch
(Seniors) and Pentala Harikrishna and Arkadij Naiditsch (Juniors). Format:
eight rounds

Filip Rachunek wrote on Mon, Jan 31, 2005 06:20 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Fischer Random Chess can be played online on <a href=http://BrainKing.com>BrainKing.com</a> as well.

Eva Stallings wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2004 12:29 AM UTC:
Please urgently let me know how to get in touch with Miguel Quinteros. 
I’ve known him and R. Fischer for longer than I can remember but have
lost
track of Miguel. It’s in regards to Bobby being imprisoned in Japan.
Please help if you can, or refer me to a place that could get me in touch
with Mr. Quinteros.

My e-mail address is
dheereva@cswebmail.com

Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Eva Stallings, New York

sirenita wrote on Sat, Jan 17, 2004 11:51 PM UTC:
soledad

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