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Awesome! I love that Chess 960 (aka Fischer Random) is a prominent choice.

It's a variant of chess where the back rank with all the pieces on it are in a random order (although the board is mirrored, so each side has their pieces in the same order).

My brother is a strong chess player, but eventually gave up the game because to improve he was having to spend more and more time memorizing opening lines. With chess 960 there are 960 different starting positions, so memorization doesn't help at all. I hope it gets more popular, it's a more purely strategic and tactical than standard chess.

Very nice!

Here's a replay of me playing someone who outclasses and outplays me in every way but becomes overconfident and makes a careless mistake that costs him/her the game. I find it amusing because I don't imagine it being common for a weak player to beat a stronger opponent.

http://lichess.org/analyse/pvpxyq

Once again I make no claim on my ability to play the game of chess. (I suck) This was more luck than anything but it's a good example of how you shouldn't give up/become too cocky before crossing the finish line.

How to troll online chess:

1. Open up Chess.app

2. Turn CPU difficulty all the way up

3. Start lichess game as black

4. Mirror lichess opponent's moves into Chess.app

5. Mirror Chess.app opponent's moves into lichess

6. Talk incredible amounts of smack

Yahoo chess still eh? You should try out chesscube. It's much much better.