Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:19:49 08/04/05
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On August 03, 2005 at 23:19:55, Jorge Pichard wrote: >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2556 > >In Chess960 the advantage for players who do a lot of homework on openings is >reduced to a minimum. “Therefore I think that this variant has good chances to >become a serious alternative in the long run”, Lobron explains. Therefore, it is >not really necessary to train for Chess960 before the tournament. Nonsense. You need to train for it because chess is not mainly about theory and you have no chance in chess960 against players who trained a lot in solving problems(not in memorizing theory lines). I think that usually the better player in normal chess will also win in chess960 because chess is not mainly opening theory. I believe that knowledge of theory does not give players more than 100-200 elo. If you are afraid that the opponent know more theory than you then you can simply escape the main lines without choosing a constant escape so the opponent will be unable to prepare against your escape. I remember that I tried one time 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Qe7 against a player that was near 100 elo better than me and got a draw. There are many ways to escape the main lines and I guess that usually players know almost nothing about them even if they were played in the past because it is impossible to remember every line that is played in less than 0.01% of the games. Uri
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