Randomness!? Does chess need more of it???

You could use a dice to select openings 😉

Who’s gonna outlast everyone in this battle royale? Take on the challenge and claim victory!

YES

Every activity has its own pluses and minuses; I think a lot of the people who like chess are attracted to the perfect information and lack of randomness. Just as randomness has certain pluses for viewers, so does predictability or fairness. In chess, the person who has worked

If you want more randomness, please change the CCT format which basically has the best players having good seeding and weakest opponents. You have overkilled the Magnus/ Hikaru matches...

I think the game itself needs no randomness. If you want randomness so much, then you can consider random pairings, so players don’t prepare for a specific opponent so much 😅

Randomness in chess comes from how the mind balances logic and intuition. Every move is influenced by past experience, pattern recognition, emotions, and real-time thinking. Even in the same position, a player might choose different moves based on focus, confidence, or fatigue. It is already infinitely complex as each move represent the story of how a player interacts with his life in a deep metaphysical sense. I’d say that to expand the randomness in chess would be to take away the individualization of the creativity at play.

This was part of Pokers mass appeal in the early days. Anyone could sit down with the best in the world and they had a chance. As the tools have gotten better and the gap between amateur and pro has grown larger that appeal became much less.

No.

Yes chess can grow from different ideas to bring in a larger audience. I always thought chess could benefit from a quality handicapping system. Horse racing uses handicapping to make the race as balanced as possible. Then sells the product to the masses.

Interesting. Chance isn't inherently part of chess and that's part of its appeal to many, that it's purely skill based. That said could a battle royale style format be fun where after each move you randomly inherit a board from another player and it's last to be mated, possibly.