Leinier Domínguez joins another Freestyle chess adventure

Próspera, a city located on the island of Roatán, in Honduraswill be the next destination of the Cuban Grandmaster Leinier Sunínguez, one of the eight of his rank who have confirmed so far your attendance at the Bitcoin Chess960 Tournament.

It is a fair that 16 On March 22, it will be played by a system also known as Freestyle o Fischer Random, in honor to its creatorthe genius and ex champion world estadoAmerican Robert “Boibby” Fisher.

Leinierwho has settled in the United States for some years and represents the federationtion of that I was bornón, appears as the player with the highest coefficient ELO, according to the pageant website.

Whoever comes closest to his accumulated 2738 points, which currently keeps him in 15th place in the FIDE ranking, is the GM Uzbek Nodirbek Yakkuboev (2689), located in position 36 of that ladder.

The organizers, who announced more additions in the coming days, also confirmed the presence of the top experts Antón Pebble (ESP-ELO 2666-Ranking 52), Johan–Sebastian christiansen (Norway-2659-54), Joseph ANDDuardo Martínez (Mexico-2656–57), Jorge Cori (Peru-2605-147), Olekxandr Bortnyk (Ukraine-2604-154) and Benjaminn bok (Netherlands- 2592-182).

According to the tournament call, the prize pool for theso different categoryIas It is 2 Bitcoins (BTC)which at the current price representsthey went in total just over 135 thousand dollars.

The first place holder from the main event would take 1 BT.C., second place would receive 0.50 and third place 0.25. What remains of that bag, yesand will be distributed among the winners of the different sections.

Chess 960 was devised by Fischer and announced for the first time in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires in 1996.

This is a variant in which The initial arrangement of the pieces in the last row is done randomly, with 960 possible initial positions.

Beyond all partYobuttritiesamong them the obligation to always place the king between the two towers, tAll standard chess rules apply once the game begins.

With his Fischer idea intendIa griducir the impact of opening theoryin order to maintain the game faithful to the original spirit of chess.

Professional players spend years studying openings, something that is not decisive in a formula that eliminates this advantage, making the game more accessible and based on skill.

Thus, cEvery game forces each player to think from the first move, and rewards creativity and understanding over memorization.

Leinier come to this experience After an outstanding performance in the World Rapid Games Championship, held at the end of last year,s of December in Qatar.

It is not the first time that Leinier dabble in chess 960because in July of lastño intervened in the Grand slam of freestyle held in the city of Las Vegas.

In that contest he shared ninth place with three others. trebejistasby losing in the direct elimination round against the Americansand Hikaru Nakamura.

In the previous round roomhad left Kazakh Bibisara Assabauyeva on the road, and in the group stage was imposed on United States Samuel Sevian, dividedor honors with Nakamura, the taalso notrteño Ray robseithern, Fabiano Caruana and he Indian Arjun Erigasi, and gave in to his duels with Vidit Gujurathi and They haveyes Niemman, exponents from India and the United States, respectively.