Editing Chess960 (section)

{{Short description|Chess variant with randomized starting position}}
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 |title = Chess960
 |image_link = {{Chess diagram small
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 |image_size = 260px
 |image_caption = One of 960 possible starting setups. [[White and Black in chess|Black]]'s setup always mirrors White's.
 |years = Since June 19, 1996
 |genre = {{ubl|[[Board game]]|[[Chess variant]]}}
 |players = 2
 |setup_time = ≈1&nbsp;min + 1&nbsp;min to determine starting position
 |playing_time = Casual games: 10–60&nbsp;min<br />Tournament games: from 10&nbsp;min ([[fast chess]]) to 6&nbsp;hours
 |random_chance = Pieces are randomized
 |skills = [[Chess strategy|Strategy]], [[Cess tactics|tactics]]
 |AKA = Fischer Random Chess
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'''Chess960''', also known as '''Fischer Random Chess'''<!-- Please do not add trademarks and brand names that are meet [[WP:COMMONNAME]] here, they are listed below. -->, is a [[chess variant]] that randomizes the starting posies on the back rank. It was introd[[996 to reduce the emphasis on [[Chess opening|opening]] preparation and to encourage creativity in play. Chess960 uses the same [[chessboard|board]] and [[Chess piece|pieces]] as classical [[chess]], but the starting position of the pieces on the players' {{chessgloss|back rank|home ranks}}n advantage through the memorization of openings unfeasible. Players instead must rely on ttivity.

Randomizing the main pieces had long been known as ''shuffle chess'', but Fischer introduced new rules for the initial random setup, "preserving the dynamic nature of the game by retaining {{chessgloss|bishops of opposite colors}} for each player and the right to [[castling|castle]] for both sides".<ref name=":0">Gligorić (2002), p. 40.</ref> The result is 960 distinct possible starting positions

In 2008, [[FIDE]] added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess.{{refn|In 2008 FIDE added Chess960 rules to an appendix of the Handbook.<ref name="FideLawsOfChess2009">From [http://aekphotography.co.uk/CAA/html/laws_historic.html laws history page of the CCA] {{Cite web|title=FIDE Laws of Chess - coming into force on 1 July 2009|url=http://aekphotography.co.uk/CAA/Laws_of_Chess_2009.pdf|access-date=5 July 2020|website=CCA – Chess Arbiters' Association}}</ref> This section is now classified under "Guidelines",<ref name="FideLawsOfChess"/> indicating that the rules presented do not have the weight of FIDE law.}} The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the [[FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019]], brought additional prominence to the variant. It was won by [[Wesley So]].<ref>{{cite web|title=FIDE officially recognizes the World Fischer Random Chess Championship|url=https://fide.com/news/149|website=[[FIDE]]|access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> In [[FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022|2022]], [[Hikaru Nakamura]] became the new champion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodgers (JackRodgers) |first=Jack |title=Hikaru Nakamura Wins Fischer Random World Championship: Flash Report |url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/wins-fischer-random-world-championship-final-hikaru-nakamura |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Chess.com |date=October 30, 2022 }}</ref>