Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? – Svetozar Gligorić

Author’s Foreword

Author’s Note

Part One: World Champion Bobby Fischer, Creator of                 Fischerandom Chess

Devlsing Plans for the First Professional Match in Fiseherandom Chess

Introduction

Origin of the game of chess and its brief history

Nature of the game

Society and the game through the centuries

The global breakthrough of the game of chess

Chess boom in the Seventies and Eighties

The Nineties in jeopardy of chess recession

The approaching crisis?

World champion Fischer – in chess and for chess

Grandmasters and the future of the game

Part Two: Birth of a New Chess Game

Dilemmas to be resolved

The harbingers of “Bobby Fischer mode” in Europe

The first Fischerandom Chess tournament – in 1996

No rapid progress in popularity of F.R.Chess till 2000

On the eve of the "Big Day"

The Story of the random positioning of pieces

Piece shuffler – as a new item

Chess clock – at last the player’s friend

Golden rules crucial to the future of the new chess

Fischerandom Rules

Part Three: Fischerandom Chess contest in Frankfurt fails because of mistaken shuffling!

World Premiere of Fischerandom Chess at a High Level

Exhibition Games in San Francisco