Chess 960 Tournament!

http://www.chess.com/tournament/chess-960-tournament5

Max players: 12 (the highest i can do with my gold membership)

Rated

Tiebreaks: Yes

Simultaneous Games: ~11

2 days per move

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u have got to be kidding. no one will join a tourney with 22 games at once

Yeah... I changed it.

Hello,

I've never chess 960 can someone give me some hints of how to get the 'hang of it'?

 Learn by playing. 

Any standard openings you know, will be of no value but basic opening principles still apply. 

Also known as Fischer chess, the pieces are randomly positioned (mirror image for your opponent) in 1 of 960 ways (heh!  I suppose one of those ways might be the conventional chess layout). 

You can still castle, but sometimes that's tricky (you need to do trial & error, which is where it's useful to enable your 'cancel' capability).

sftac

ps.  What's the prize for the winner?  Does the site assign player colours between opponents?  You're limited to only 12 in an event, and that's based on your membership and not your experience or success in running tournaments?  Curious.

What is chess 960? I don't get it .. Someone pls explain thx !!

it was invented by fischer so that chess could be played w/o extensive opening memorization. it's a lot of fun. try it. on the other hand it tends to emphasize tactics over strategy.