Wading in Opening Theory

Every once in a while I get overwhelmed when a new SP518 online tournament starts and I have little time for blogging. Two years ago I mentioned this for a post titled The Clock Is/Isn't Ticking, and now, for similar reasons, I plead Cup Play.

What to do? How about a quick post on the terms Google suggests for a chess960 search. I found a good explanation of the mechanism at How Google Instant’s Autocomplete Suggestions Work, written by Danny Sullivan, aka Dr. Search Engine. Here are the terms suggested when you start typing 'chess960':-

• chess960 castling
• chess960 strategy
• chess960 openings
• chess960 chess.com
• chess960 tips
• chess960 computer
• chess960 play online
• chess960 tournament
• chess960 games
• chess960 software

Ditto for 'fischer random':-

• fischer random chess
• fischer random chess online
• fischer random generator
• fischer random chess castling
• fischer random chess960
• fischer random castling

The term 'fischerrandom' (two 'r's) automatically corrects to 'fischer random', while 'fischerandom' (one 'r') returns only three suggestions:-

• fischerandom chess
• fischerandom chess computerized shuffler
• fischerandom wiki

There are some interesting terms in these lists and I might come back to them for my next post if I'm still wading in opening theory.