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**Just2Good** · 01-24-2009, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by Jaz

I guess a new player with talent would fare considerably better in chess960 against an older player who has memorized lots of starting patterns.

Bobby Fischer created Chess 960 precisely for this reason, to bring chess back to the basics. The game has reached the stage where most Grandmasters have memorized so many opening lines up to the 20th move and sometimes even beyond that. So up to that point of the game anyway, its just repetition.

01-24-2009, 03:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,229 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by Jaz I guess a new player with talent would fare considerably better in chess960 against an older player who has memorized lots of starting patterns. Bobby Fischer created Chess 960 precisely for this reason, to bring chess back to the basics. The game has reached the stage where most Grandmasters have memorized so many opening lines up to the 20th move and sometimes even beyond that. So up to that point of the game anyway, its just repetition. __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~