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Many players avoid Fischer Random because they like the traditional element of regular chess, but I believe Fischer Random is an expansion of chess to its full capacity. Let's say, hypothetically, that Fischer Random was how chess had been played for thousands of years; then suddenly Fide comes along and says "Ok here's what we're going to do. We're going to take all 960 possible starting positions and whittle them down to one - just one - and we're only going to use that one starting position for centuries, analyse the heck of it, and keep flogging it and flogging it until you struggle to come up with novelties."
Wouldn't you find that limiting? This is why, to me, Fischer Random is fixing what has been wrong with chess for hundreds of years. What are your thoughts?