HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? Stockfish 15 destroys Berserk (3705) in 15 MOVES!?
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Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 (often read in this context as 'chess nine-sixty' instead of 'chess nine hundred sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer. Fischer announced this variation on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fischer random chess employs the same board and pieces as classical chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized, following certain rules. The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization of openings impracticable; players instead must rely more on their skill and creativity over the board.
Randomizing the main pieces had long been known as shuffle chess, but Fischer random chess introduces new rules for the initial random setup, "preserving the dynamic nature of the game by retaining bishops of opposite colours for each player and the right to castle for both sides". The result is 960 unique possible starting positions.
In 2008, FIDE added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess.The first world championship officially sanctioned by FIDE, the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019, brought additional prominence to the variant.
PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event "CCRL 40/2 FRC"]
[Site "CCRL"]
[Date "2022.04.19"]
[Round "300.2.353"]
[White "Stockfish 15"]
[Black "Berserk 8.5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "3934"]
[BlackElo "3705"]
[Variant "From Position"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[ECO "?"]
[Opening "?"]
[Termination "Unknown"]
[FEN "rnnkrbbq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNNKRBBQ w KQkq - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
1. g3 Nc6 2. e4 e5 3. Nc3 Nb6 4. Nd3 O-O-O 5. f4 f6 6. a4 Nc4 7. a5 N4xa5?! { (0.61 → 1.73) Inaccuracy. Bf7 was best. } (7... Bf7 8. Kc1 Kb8 9. a6 b6 10. Ra4 g5 11. Nd5 Nd6 12. Be3 gxf4 13. gxf4 f5 14. Nc3) 8. b4 Nc4 9. Bxa7 b6 10. Nd5 Nxa7 11. Nc5?! { (2.44 → 1.77) Inaccuracy. Rxa7 was best. } (11. Rxa7) 11... bxc5 12. Bxc4 Kb7 13. Qf1 cxb4?? { (2.66 → 5.73) Blunder. c6 was best. } (13... c6 14. Ba6+ Kb8 15. bxc5 cxd5 16. Rb1+ Kc7 17. Rb7+ Kc6 18. d4 exd4 19. Rxa7 Bxc5 20. Qb5+) 14. Ba6+ Kb8 15. Qc4 c5?! { (6.12 → 23.52) Inaccuracy. Rc8 was best. } (15... Rc8 16. Bb7) 16. Bb7 Bxd5 17. Bxd5 Qg8 18. Qa6 Kc7 19. Qxa7+ Kd6 20. Ra6+ Ke7 21. Bxg8 Rc8 22. fxe5 c4 23. Rd6 Rc7 { White wins. } 1-0