Variations of Chess – Fischer Random Chess

Back in his day, Bobby Fischer, one of the world’s greatest ever chess players, invented Fischer Random Chess. This is a variant of regular chess where the beginning positions of the pieces are placed at random. This can be played with any standard chess set yet provides more challenge.

Fischer’s idea was to eliminate prepared and predictable openings that can be studied and analyzed. Random starting positions meant that a chess player would have to think creatively and strategically from the beginning. Fischer felt that this was the chess of the future.

Fischer Random Chess still had rules though. even set up was not totally random but had some method to it: The white Pawns are still placed on their regular squares on the second rank and all other pieces on the first rank. The white King must be placed between the two white Rooks and the two white Bishops must be placed on opposite colored squares. Once accomplished, the black pieces are place directly across their equal white pieces.

Related posts:

1. The Very Basics of Chess
2. Chess Moves – The Bishop
3. More about the Chess Board
4. Variations of Chess – Dragon Chess
5. Variations of Chess – Chess for Four