Fischer Random Chess

A King may castle with its a-side Rook or its h-side Rook. When castling a-side, the King and Rook go to the same spaces they would go when Queen-side castling in Chess. When castling h-side, the King and Rook go to the same spaces they would go when King-side castling in Chess. This table shows where the King and Rook end up for each type of castling.

White castles a-side	Kc1, Rd1
White castles h-side	Kg1, Rf1
Black castles a-side	Kc8, Rd8
Black castles h-side	Kg8, Rf8

The above was authored by: Terumi Kaneyasu and Fergus Duniho. The above was invented by: Robert J. Fischer.
The above was edited/posted by: Fergus Duniho
Created on: 1996. Last modified on: May 11, 2004.

Comments

Date	Name	Rating	Comment
2006-02-27	Reinhard Scharnagl	None	Hi Gene, I mentioned your book near to mine at my SMIRF / ChessBox pages: http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachbuch.html . Unfortunately my German language book on Chess960 is sold only rarely about 10 pieces per quarter. So I hope for you to have better success with yours ... ;-) Your book is enlighting a lot of details also on 'fights' about right or wrong extended FEN and move representation for engines playing Chess960. Meanwhile the unnecessarily invented Fritz numbering scheme for Fischer Random Chess luckily has been withdrawn by an update of that program. Regards, Reinhard.
2006-02-17	Juan Pablo	Excellent	Very good, I hope you can develop a chess game to download and promote de fischerandom, cheers from Argentina
2006-02-13	Gene Milener	None	It is significant news for chess960 (a.k.a. Fischer Random Chess) when a major new chess book is published that is largely devoted to chess960. I therefore would like to encourage the editors to add mention of this new chess960 book to this web page. The book info is: Play Stronger Chess by Examining Chess960: Usable Strategies of Fischer Random Chess Discovered by Gene Milener ISBN 0-9774521-0-7 Page count 252 More information, including an extended excerpt, is available at http://CastleLong.com/. Available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, BarnesAndNoble.com, and elsewhere. This chess book is about both chess960 and chess1, because it compares and contrasts them. This teaches us things about both rule sets that are harder to see when studying either in isolation. Thank you.
2005-11-08	M. Thompson	None	Yes, but was Fischer just being Fischer? The question has been asked before. By the way, Karpov says he will play Fischer, even if it is FRC, and there is an article out now showing Fischer meeting with Kasparov!!!! Can this be true? http://www.GothicChess.com/news.html is the link. Exciting stuff if it were so.
2005-10-14	Derek Nalls	None	Fischer vs. Topalov Fischer Random Chess http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=53662 According to this news report, both are willing to play one another. Will negotiations over money and the details of the competition hold-up, though?