Columns | October 15, 2011 21:44  Non-random Fischer Random
Non-random Fischer Random   The 2009 poster of the Mainz Chess
Classic, which doesn't exist anymore. There Chess960/Fischer
Random was played every year.  In that blitz game, Nigel Short
played the St. George Defense (which usually arises after 1.e4
a6 but now appeared on the board after 1.Nf3 b5 2.e4 a6) and
even managed to beat the 13th World Champion (who, admittedly,
blundered an exchange in the middle game). He thus created an
appropriate echo of another St. George game, in which another
British Grandmaster, Tony Miles, managed to beat  former World
Champion, Anatoly Karpov (at the Skara European Team
Championships in 1980).  In fact, Short also beat Kasparov with
the now-rare King’s Gambit – and with a rare line within the
King’s Gambit at that - providing another argument for those
people (and I think I consider myself to be among them) who
claim that all it takes to solve boring computer preparation is
some creativity in the opening. Is that