Chess960 - Chess for the 21st Century

“I have to say that I love Chess960!”
-- Alexandra Kosteniuk

“Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.”
-- Levon Aronian

“I like to play Chess960. [...] I get bored from playing openings like the Slav over and over again. I think that in about 15 or 20 years we will only be playing Chess960.”
-- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

“I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, or really it's dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavour. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.”
-- Bobby Fischer

“I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.”
-- Bobby Fischer

“Fischer is a man ahead of his time and his ideas are road markings for the 21st century. Fischer's proposal of changing the starting positions of the pieces, making more room for creativity, is the only way that the human race can retain its vitality in the face of inevitable technological progress. Like his chess clock, which is used more and more, his idea of a chess game will be accepted - whether in twenty or fifty years is immaterial.”
-- Ljubomir Ljubojevic