2025 Chess.com Seirawan Chess Championship: Official Discussion Thread

WHEN WILL IT START ?

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This is gonna be good

Is it for tittled players or not

Are you just reading the title? Come on!...
"The event is open to all players"
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Why do chess GMs generally seem okay with Chess960, but not Seirawan Chess (S-Chess)? Seems like folks who've really nailed regular chess might naturally want a tougher challenge that shakes things up, right but hold your horses. Seriously, why are they so against trying new pieces ?

A quality game should have few rules and exceptions. Adding new pieces and rules to chess won't make it better. They will all be short-lived. The final state chess will reach is Chess960. Perhaps Chess324 will follow suit. These are entirely my personal observations and opinions. Therefore, they should be taken into consideration.

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I have read one of serawans books

I guess: "Winning Openings"...

Why doesn't Kaufman Random Chess get more love? 960 can be such a mess, right.

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Might not a piece embodying the qualities of both knight and king offer a more judicious alternative to the hawk, so as to temper the often-frenetic pace of the game ?

It is "Nordlandia Chess"...

I assume that such a piece will make the game more positionally charged, among other things. The hawk is fierce, the "centaur" is always restricted by the knight gait.