Given the Chance

Today Saturday April 20 2019 can be remembered as a historic day and an important milestone in chess history, as the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) finally recognised that Fischerandom chess (idem to say Fischer Random chess and chess960) is chess. In announcing the inauguration of the first ever “official” World Fischerandom Chess Championship cycle, 7th FIDE President Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich also made some declarations about the historical opening-process: “It is an unprecedented move that the International Chess Federation recognizes a new variety of chess, so this was a decision that required to be carefully thought out”, he said. “But we believe that Fischer Random is a positive innovation: it injects new energies and enthusiasm into our game, but at the same time it doesn’t mean a rupture with our classical chess and its tradition. It is probably for this reason that Fischer Random chess has won the favor of the chess community, including the top players and the world champion himself. FIDE couldn’t be oblivious to that: it was time to embrace and incorporate this modality of chess”.