Magnus Carlsen takes on Arkady Dvorkovich using the freestyle opening.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/04/magnus-carlsen-calls-international-chess-president-quit-arkady-dvorkovich-freestyle-grand-slam
Whatever happens, this new freestyle chess tour is getting plenty of publicity. They shouldn't have any problem selling tickets for these
events now.
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Silver Skull wrote:
Whatever happens, this new freestyle chess tour is getting
plenty of publicity. They shouldn't have any problem selling
tickets for these events now.
Fascinating! I think it is nonsense that they cannot call
their project World Championship. That FIDE thinks it has a
copyright on those words is absurd.
D wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Silver Skull wrote:
Whatever happens, this new freestyle chess tour is getting
plenty of publicity. They shouldn't have any problem selling
tickets for these events now.
Fascinating! I think it is nonsense that they cannot call
their project World Championship. That FIDE thinks it has a
copyright on those words is absurd.
The "Freestyle Chess" organisers backed down in the end, and
their champion will not be called the "World Champion".
For the bigger picture and chess overall this was the right
thing to do. A war conducted through social media was not really
the way to go. All of the discussions should have been behind
closed doors enabling FIDE and the "Freestyle Chess" organisers
(Magnus) to resolve this issue quietly. Whilst we all love the
drama and YouTube content, if you are launching a new chess
tournament all publicity might be seen as good publicity, but
if it damages the image of chess to the wider public then it's
definitely not good.
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025, Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Silver Skull wrote:
Whatever happens, this new freestyle chess tour is
getting plenty of publicity. They shouldn't have any
problem selling tickets for these events now.
Fascinating! I think it is nonsense that they cannot call
their project World Championship. That FIDE thinks it has a
copyright on those words is absurd.
The "Freestyle Chess" organisers backed down in the end, and
their champion will not be called the "World Champion".
This is sad.
For the bigger picture and chess overall this was the right
thing to do. A war conducted through social media was not
really the way to go.
I'm not sure. Clearly FIDE is out of touch so I think a schism
might have served to propel it into the 21st century!
All of the discussions should have been behind closed
doors enabling FIDE and the "Freestyle Chess" organisers
(Magnus) to resolve this issue quietly. Whilst we all
love the drama and YouTube content, if you are launching
a new chess tournament all publicity might be seen as good
publicity, but if it damages the image of chess to the wider
public then it's definitely not good.
But it is not world champion of chess, it is world champion of
960 or what ever they call it. Different thing.
I'm not sure. Clearly FIDE is out of touch so I think a schism
might have served to propel it into the 21st century!
FIDE are definitely out of touch with the younger generations
and the appeal of the non-classical formats. A compromise should
have been worked out weeks ago.
But it is not world champion of chess, it is world champion of
960 or what ever they call it. Different thing.
Yes, it is different and FIDE were in the wrong. They were
obviously worried about there being rival chess "world
champions"... especially with a series of tournaments co-founded
and backed by Magnus Carlsen. I'm not saying FIDE are right, I'm
saying the negotiations regarding this issue should have been
done behind closed doors, not via X/Facebook/YouTube... it is
one game [chess] after all. Sensible people should be able to
work out that the Freestyle/Chess960 World Champion is not the
FIDE World Chess Champion. But a public war benefits nobody in
the game.
I guess I want 960 to experience a fruitful run. Maybe
we'll see it on some of the chess sites like
lichess.org and gameknot.com.
Tahitian pearl wrote:
I guess I want 960 to experience a fruitful run. Maybe
we'll see it on some of the chess sites like
lichess.org and gameknot.com.
Chess960 is on the big chess sites, and has been for years...
I'm always getting beaten on chess.com whenever I play chess 960.
It is a fun format though and maybe it will see a lot more
growth now because of this new "Freestyle Chess" tour.
Watching the actual games from Germany yesterday afternoon on
chess.com with everyone talking at the same time like
over-excited school children did drive me mad though...
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