- Rules of fischer random chess; 'See also: wild'
FICS doesn't have a forum and I couldn't find much discussion on other forums. The recurring theme seems to be how problematic it is to find a game there. For example:-
- My Fischer Random (Chess960) Live Games Thread (2012), 'It's tough to get a Fischer Random game. I've posted seeks at ICC and FICS that sat there for 20 minutes before I gave up. I tried LiChess.org and got some quick acceptances.
- Chess960 best source to play is here [Lichess] (2013), 'signed up at FICS for live chess960 and couldn't find anyone to play'
As for the last two servers listed after ICS under my 'Crossboard (Live) Chess960' links, I've already discussed them on this blog. Here is the final post for each server; follow the link to find earlier posts:-
- ICC: Fischer and 'Wild Variant 22'
- Lichess: Third Look
In my next post I'll start looking at servers listed under 'Correspondence (Turnbased) Chess960'.
2 comments:
A couple of the problems with online chess960 is not so much that you cannot get a game of 960, it is more that it is either nearly always blitz (so fast the game is meaningless) or the person accepts a game offer, then realises they made a mistake because they were expecting chess and found that the pieces are all mixed up, then they rudely abort the game without accepting their mistake leaving you without a player and wasting your time. There should be some etiquette about that, but there isn't.
Abort right after accept -problem: That is resolved in most of the cases in 'lichess'. When the player clicks to accept a game of 960, he gets a notice that he will not play classical but a variant.
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