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what is freestyle chess?
it is a variant created by the legendary racist bobby fischer where the last rank is shuffled up, tossing the opening prep out of the window.
FIDE, the big boss of chess, thinks they're the only ones who can use "World Championship". Freestyle Chess Players Club wanted to call their tournament a "World Championship" too, but FIDE wasn't having it. They told players to sign a waiver to stay cool with FIDE events if they played in Freestyle.
Things got spicy with both sides throwing shade. FIDE's CEO, Emil Sutovsky, said Freestyle Chess was just protecting the elite players. Freestyle Chess hit back, saying FIDE was pressuring players and even called for the FIDE president to step down.
After all the drama, Freestyle Chess agreed to drop "World Championship" from their promo stuff for the next 10 months. This was a move to keep things chill for a bit.
they are planning tennis like tour and F1 like point system.
the first Grand Slam 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus is going on rn. semifinals would start from tomorrow. would you like to bet?
tourney drama
magnus initially performed mediocre during the round robin phase, leading to people declaring him washed. currently he's playing games at 98% accuracy while eating fruits (banana)
caruana is rumored to have studied all 960 opening maps and has put the current FIDE world champ Gukesh in his place through straight upperhand matchups
sindarov, the last minute entrant, runner up of the qualifier has been upsetting people left & right. he even chose the tough matchup hikaru (the legendary streamer) for the quarterfinal, shocking everyone. currently playing the tiebreaker
prince ali, the topper of the round robin. current playing vincent (the weakest pick) and is losing lmao. edit: bozo lost
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i've never played chess this way but it sounds kinda interesting
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I like the idea in theory, but playing it isn't that fun. The positions you get are usually ugly and uninteresting. I've always thought that if you wanted to avoid opening prep autism, tournament games should be assigned random openings X moves deep that are roughly equal. Though that system is so easily exploited we would have a Russian world champion again in no time.
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To avoid opening prep, both players should have to wear vibrating butt plugs
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While I think that Chess960 does well enough in making rote memorization of opening moves more challenging for most people (and therefore rewarding intuition and grasp of fundamentals), correct play seems to be a lot narrower with a lot of setups, particularly with bishops in the corner. The OG setup just has a lot more viable openers.
The positional and attacking ideas feel exactly the same once you're in the middlegame.
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tiebreaker rn live
the crazy asian
@Xkong vs random zoomer phenom (ignore the thumbnail)
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dont take this the wrong way but i like playing chess, not watching incels play chess
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the incels have heartbeat meters strapped to them
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