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1. Weekly Discussion & Tournament Thread Index - May 13, 2024 [Mod Applications Welcome]

   r/chess Weekly Discussion Thread

   You are welcome to ask here all kinds of chess-related questions that don't warrant their own post. You can also discuss or ask questions about upcoming tournaments that don't have their own thread yet.

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2. Event: Casablanca Chess 2024

   Official Website

   Follow the games here: Chess.com | Lichess

   CASABLANCA - A grand chess spectacle begins in Morocco. Four top grandmasters – Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand, and Bassem Amin – will test the new Casablanca Chess Variant, introduced by the Casablanca Stock Exchange. They will start their rapid games from carefully selected positions derived from historical games. The event coincides with the centenary celebrations of FIDE. To further engage the audience, each position will be chosen from a historically significant game by GM Hicham Hamdouchi and GM Laurent Fressinet. After each game, it will be interesting

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3. It's a travesty we are removing Fischer's name from "Chess 960"

   Yes Fischer went quite mad in his later years but his madness was caused, or at least intertwined with his years of dedication to the game.

   He invented Fischer Random to help chess prevail through the computer era, where memorization and opening theory takes up a lot of pro's time, and the spirit of the game is lost.

   He invented it, put his name on it, we still call Ford cars Fords, even though Henry Ford was a Nazi collaborator, and there are countless other examples of us still using the names of bad people to refer to their inventions, and I am not sure Fischer is even a bad guy, he just went mad in his old age.

   It's just a damn shame the man gave and arguably lost his life for chess, now the higher authorities in chess are trying to remove what in the future may be his greatest contribution to the game, and I'm not even entirely sure why. For myself at least, I will always refer to the chess variation that Fischer created as Fischer Random.

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4. Fabi and Anish with a bit of humor about the inaccuracies by Magnus and Hikaru from the historical starting position in Casablanca Chess!

   https://twitter.com/FabianoCaruana/status/1791852471817761153?t=xdEq3P2p83_et4xAbNc8UQ&s=19 submitted by /u/rederer07 [link]

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5. For those wondering what the 50th percentile ranking is on chess.com. I crossed the threshold going from 648 to 656.

   submitted by /u/democratichoax [link] [comments]

6. Why are Steinitz, Kasparov and others listed in Casablanca event?

   I just pulled up the results and games in the Chess.com app for the Casablanca Chess 2024 event, and was surprised to see Kasparov, Karpov, Chigorin and Steinitz among the list of participants. Are some of these guys playing chess from beyond the grave, or is this some kind of joke or tribute to them? See screenshot. submitted by /u/Wondercito [link]

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