Chess960 openings!

Sort:
glider1001
pbeckett wrote:

it's on chessbase.com as I remember.

/chess960 probably.

Afriend printed it off  for me when I was still a bit unsure of the game's merits.(I'm convinced now!)

I think this might be the one you are referring too:

 
or perhaps this one:

Both of these are absolutely amazing games. Look at the way Naka mates Aronian in the first, and the way Naka hides his king in the second. Chess960 is action, go for it have fun.

pbeckett

when 960 becomes the norm(!)

no-one will know the 'standard chess' openings well enough to fall into the traps.No-one will learn traps at all as it won't be worth the effort.

pbeckett

btw the 2nd game above (1 f4 f5) was the game I had in mind,

But the 22-move game is amazing too.

jagulep

IM blundered to me on move 1 (I continued the game with 13. 0-0, etc. and later won - full game at https://www.chess.com/variants/chess960/game/17321741/24/1 )

though I think I blundered on move 3 myself - the rook on g8 was trapped and could be taken any time so I think better would have been 3. g3 or 3. Ng3 to have stopped the possibility of ...Bxh2 because after 3. Bxg8 (as played in the game), 3...Bxh2 would have given black more chances than his 3...Kxg8, I think