Halloween chess960
Hello MNMS club members! A new and special tournament is upcoming! To have chess fun for Halloween, a special Chess960 tournament is going to be hosted!
Here are the details of the tournament:
- Name of the tournament:
- Halloween chess960
- When it is:
- October 31, 2020
- 2:15 PM
- Chess variant:
- chess960
- Time Control:
- G/10
- Section:
- Open
- Rounds:
- 4 Round Swiss
- Prizes:
- 1st place:
- 1st place trophy
- 2nd place:
- 2nd place medal
- 3rd place:
- 3rd place medal
- 1st place:
How to play chess960:
To those who don't know how to play chess960, please read this before playing in the tournament!
Chess960 is a chess variant created by Bobby Fischer (the 11th world chess champion). In this variant, the pieces on the 1st rank and 8th rank are shuffled. There are, however, some rules to how the pieces can be placed! For example, the starting position in this variant can look like this:
Fun fact about Chess960: it is called Chess960, because there are 960 possible starting positions!!
To read more about Chess960, click here!
Other than the tournament, here is the puzzle of the day! See you all at the tournament!
