No live 960 on chess.com. Sorry, it's the hard truth.
There must be other sites, though. Or you can download an app on the App Store or Google Play Store.
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chess.com is the best chess site by far, but lacks this one thing. i play 960 live at chesscube.com
chesscube, FICS, instantchess and ICC all have it I believe.
Though chess com is easily the best, having live 960 would be amazing.
Whatd be even better if there were OTB 960 tournaments, but alas, its only standard chess..
Oct 29, 2012
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Thanks for creating this thread and to you who replied because I wondered about the same thing and agree. :-)
From wikipedia on 'naming':
This chess variant has held a number of different names. It was initially known as "Fischerandom Chess" after Fischer formalized his variation of Shuffle Chess. Later name forms included "Fischer Random Chess", "FR Chess", and "FRC".
Hans-Walter Schmitt, chairman of the Frankfurt Chess Tigers e.V. and an advocate of this variant, started a brainstorming process for selecting a new name, which had to meet requirements of leading grandmasters; specifically, the new name and its parts:
- should not contain part of the name of any Grandmaster
- should not include negatively biased or "spongy" elements (such as "random" or "freestyle")
- should be universally understood
The effort culminated in the name choice Chess960 – derived from the number of different possible starting positions.
THETUBESTER wrote:
If Bobby Fischer created it, shouldn't he be able to name it?? Hmmmm. I guess he's dead so he can't complain too much now.
Actually he didnt create it, it was previously named 'shuffle chess', he just advocated it a lot and maybe made a minor tweak or two.
Then his fanboys started calling it fischer random.
Am I losing my mind or is there no way to play live chess 960? I see it on the online chess but no live. I'm starting to get into 960 it would be nice to play it live.