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Ep234 - Oliver Roeder | Seven Games: A Human History

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Chess 960 or Fisher Random Is the 'Chass of the Moment'

In the world championship they play what's called classical chess which can last something seven or eight hours. Speed chess is kind of the chess of the moment where everybody plays speed chess and if you're playing speed chess you are forced to rely less on your memory and your prep and more on your sort of human intuition and the raw fast twitch chess skill so that's one argument one proposal to sort of shake up the format.

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