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Fischer random chess, the Glossary

Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.^[1]

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1996 in chess
Board games introduced in 1996
Bobby Fischer

Aaron Alexandre

Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (אהרון אלכסנדר, around 1765/68 in Hohenfeld, Franconia – 16 November 1850 in London, England) was a German–French–English chess player and writer.

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Aleksandr Lenderman

Aleksandr "Alex" Lenderman (born September 23, 1989) is an American chess grandmaster.

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Alexander Grischuk

Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021.

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Alireza Firouzja

Alireza Firouzja (علیرضا فیروزجا,; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster.

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Andrew Tang

Andrew Tang (born November 29, 1999) is an American chess grandmaster.

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Anish Giri

Anish Kumar Giri (अनीश कुमार गिरि; Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

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Arkady Dvorkovich

Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich (Арка́дий Влади́мирович Дворко́вич; born 26 March 1972) is a Russian politician and economist, currently serving as the president of the International Chess Federation, FIDE.

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Artur Yusupov (chess player)

Artur Mayakovich Yusupov (Арту́р Маякович Юсу́пов; Artur Majakowitsch Jussupow; born February 13, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and a chess writer.

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Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot (born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

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Boris Spassky

Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Capablanca chess

Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. Fischer random chess and Capablanca chess are chess variants.

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Castling

Castling is a move in chess.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chess opening

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game.

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Chess piece

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess.

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Chess strategy

Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play.

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Chess tactic

In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or the threat of another tactic – that culminates in the opponent's being unable to respond to all of the threats without making some kind of concession.

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Chess variant

A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Fischer random chess and chess variant are chess variants.

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Chess.com

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website.

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ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

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Chessboard

A chessboard is a game board used to play chess.

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Computer chess

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess.

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Dennis de Vreugt

Dennis de Vreugt (born 4 November 1980) is a Dutch chess grandmaster (2000).

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Dice

Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.

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Dimitri Reinderman

Dimitri Reinderman (born 12 August 1972) is a Dutch chess grandmaster.

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Dominoes

Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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Elisabeth Pähtz

Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985, sometimes spelt Elisabeth Paehtz) is a German chess Grandmaster.

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Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning three-time United States Chess Champion.

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Fast chess

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow. Fischer random chess and Fast chess are chess variants.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019

The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019 (WFRCC) was the first world championship in Fischer random chess officially recognized by the international chess federation FIDE.

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FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022

The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960).

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First-move advantage in chess

In chess, there is a consensus among players and theorists that the player who makes the first move (White) has an inherent advantage, albeit not one large enough to win with perfect play.

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Fischer random chess numbering scheme

The game Fischer random chess, played with conventional chess pieces and rules, starts with a random selection of one of 960 positions for the pieces.

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Fischer–Spassky (1992 match)

The 1992 Fischer–Spassky match between former world chess champions Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky was billed as a World Chess Championship, though it was an unofficial rematch of their 1972 World Championship match. Fischer random chess and Fischer–Spassky (1992 match) are Bobby Fischer.

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Forsyth–Edwards Notation

Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a chess game.

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Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge

The Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge was an 8-player over-the-board classical Fischer random chess tournament that took place at Gut Weißenhaus in Wangels, Germany from February 9–16, 2024.

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Fritz (chess)

Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist.

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Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Høvikodden

Høvikodden is a headland in Bærum municipality, Norway, by the Oslofjord near the populated area Høvik, whence its name was taken.

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Helmut Pfleger

Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author.

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Hikaru Nakamura

Christopher Hikaru Nakamura, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, December 7, 2022 (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion.

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Hour

An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time historically reckoned as of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds (SI).

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Ian Nepomniachtchi

Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (a; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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ICGA Journal

The ICGA Journal is a quarterly academic journal published by the International Computer Games Association.

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Ingo Althöfer

Ingo Althöfer (born 1961) is a German mathematician at the University of Jena, where he holds the chair of operations research.

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Izidor Gross

Izidor Gross (25 June 1860 – 1942) was a Croatian chess master and hazzan.

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Jonkheer

Jonkheer (female equivalent: jonkvrouw; Écuyer in the masculine only; jonkvrouw is used in the feminine, even in French; Squire) is an honorific in the Low Countries denoting the lowest rank within the nobility.

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Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time.

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Kateryna Lagno

Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno (Екатерина Александровна Лагно,; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster.

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Komodo (chess)

Komodo and Dragon by Komodo Chess (also known as Dragon or Komodo Dragon) are UCI chess engines developed by Komodo Chess, which is a part of Chess.com.

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Larry Kaufman

Lawrence Charles Kaufman (born November 15, 1947) is an American chess player.

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László Polgár

László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist.

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Leinier Domínguez

Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983) is a Cuban and American chess grandmaster.

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Levon Aronian

Levon Grigori Aronian (Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster.

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Lichess

Lichess is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name.

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Maarten van 't Kruijs

Maarten van 't Kruijs (18 February 1813 – 30 March 1885) was a Dutch chess player and organist.

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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.

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Mainz

Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.

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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion.

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Michael Adams (chess player)

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster and is an eight-time British Chess Champion.

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Mind Sports Olympiad

The Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) is an annual international multi-disciplined competition and festival for games of mental skill and mind sports by Mind Sports Organisation.

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Minute

Minute is a unit of time defined as equal to 60 seconds.

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Pentala Harikrishna

Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

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Peter Leko

Peter Leko (Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator.

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Peter Svidler

Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion.

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Philip Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt

Philip (or Philippus) Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt (Rotterdam, 5 January 1743 – Utrecht, 20 February 1826) was a Dutch general, nobleman and politician.

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Portable Game Notation

Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a standard plain text format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software.

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Reykjavik Open

The Reykjavik Open is an annual chess tournament that takes place in the capital city of Iceland.

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Rules of chess

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess.

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Rybka

Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich.

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Saint Louis Chess Club

The Saint Louis Chess Club (previously named the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) is a chess club located in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Sam Shankland

Samuel L. Shankland (born October 1, 1991) is an American chess grandmaster.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.

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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.

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Shredder (software)

Shredder is a commercial chess engine and graphical user interface (GUI) developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993.

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Sofia Polgar

Sofia Polgar (Polgár Zsófia,; born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist.

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Stockfish (chess)

Stockfish is a free and open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms.

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Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster.

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Svetozar Gligorić

Svetozar Gligorić (Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician.

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The Chess Variant Pages

The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. Fischer random chess and The Chess Variant Pages are chess variants.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Transcendental chess

Transcendental chess (TC) also known as pre-chess, is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Maxwell Lawrence. Fischer random chess and Transcendental chess are chess variants.

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United States Chess Federation

The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in The World Chess Federation (FIDE).

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Veselin Topalov

Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced; Весели́н Алексáндров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion.

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Victor Bologan

Victor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author.

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion.

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Vlastimil Hort

Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a Czechoslovak and later German chess Grandmaster.

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Vojvodina

Vojvodina (Војводина), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe.

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Wesley So

Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion.

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White and Black in chess

In chess, the player who moves first is called White and the player who moves second is called Black.

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World Chess Championship 1972

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Fischer random chess and World Chess Championship 1972 are Bobby Fischer.

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X-FEN

X-FEN (formerly FRC-FEN) is an extension of Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) introduced by Reinhard Scharnagl in 2003. Fischer random chess and x-FEN are chess variants.

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Yasser Seirawan

Yasser Seirawan (ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Zoltán Almási

Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess

Also known as 960 Chess, 960Chess, 9LX, Chess 480, Chess 960, Chess 9LX, Chess480, Chess960, Chess960 starting position, Chess9LX, FR chess, Fischer Random, Fischer Random Chess starting position, Fischer Randomized Chess, FischerRandom, Fischerandom, Fischerandom Chess, Fisher Random Chess, Freestyle Chess, New Chess, Random chess, Shuffle Chess.

, Ian Nepomniachtchi, ICGA Journal, Ingo Althöfer, Izidor Gross, Jonkheer, Judit Polgár, Kateryna Lagno, Komodo (chess), Larry Kaufman, László Polgár, Leinier Domínguez, Levon Aronian, Lichess, Maarten van 't Kruijs, Magnus Carlsen, Mainz, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Michael Adams (chess player), Mind Sports Olympiad, Minute, Pentala Harikrishna, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler, Philip Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Portable Game Notation, Reykjavik Open, Rules of chess, Rybka, Saint Louis Chess Club, Sam Shankland, Scrabble, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Shredder (software), Sofia Polgar, Stockfish (chess), Susan Polgar, Svetozar Gligorić, The Chess Variant Pages, The New York Times, Transcendental chess, United States Chess Federation, Veselin Topalov, Victor Bologan, Viswanathan Anand, Vlastimil Hort, Vojvodina, Wesley So, White and Black in chess, World Chess Championship 1972, X-FEN, Yasser Seirawan, YouTube, Zoltán Almási.

Fischer random chess, the Glossary

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See also

1996 in chess

Board games introduced in 1996

Bobby Fischer

References