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EternalChess

Do you think any grandmaster in the world (or normal players) are studying good openings in 960?

I believe no, why waste the time to study it when real chess matters,

also why study 960 different chess positions? and remember them all?

Do you believe someone is studying the positions and opening for chess 960?

mowque

What is 960?

NOLAUPT

no

DeepGreene

Beware of Bishops who start on the A or H files.  That's all I've got so far.  :)

PhilipN

And beware of pawns that start out undefended (the standard position doesn't allow for this)!

ichabod801

I don't think they are studying specific openings, but they are probably rethinking general opening theory. How do different types of positions affect opening principles? That sort of thing. Some of that has already been done here. I'm not sure how useful that sort of thing is at the grandmaster level.

Markle

If you ask me 960 chess is a fun way to pass the time when you have nothing better to do but to spend time studying openings for the random placement of pieces is a waste of time that could be better spent studying real chess.

EternalChess
Markle wrote:

If you ask me 960 chess is a fun way to pass the time when you have nothing better to do but to spend time studying openings for the random placement of pieces is a waste of time that could be better spent studying real chess.


 Agreed

theSinned

To me the wonderful thing about 960 is that it does away with memorizing openings; it's as if you're tossed straight into the middle game. 

It would be impossible and pointless to study openings, or at least memorizing them.  I guess you could study opening theory, such as how to most effectively use your knights based on how far apart they start.  But that's not really studying openings, its just chess theory in general.