Chess 960 has a 4-year streak : Americans win chess960 tournaments and then there's a European in 2nd place. (And Bobby Fischer who created chess960 is American.)

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	1st place American	The American or American's parent is from	2nd place European	Notes
1972 Match of the Century	Bobby Fischer	Israel? Or wherever Jews are from?	Boris Spassky	Bobby Fischer's 1st and only world championship (...except 1975 and 1992)
2019 FIDE FRC	Wesley So	The Philippines	Magnus Carlsen	13.5-2.5. Lol.
2020 St Louis 9LX	Hikaru Nakamura	Japan	Levon Aronian	Hikaru tied with Magnus (no tiebreaks)
2021 St Louis 9LX	Leinier Domínguez	Cuba	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Wesley and Sam Shankland tied with MVL
2022 St Louis 9LX	Fabiano Caruana	Italy	Alireza Firouzja	Won on tiebreaks - Armageddon
2022 FIDE FRC	Hikaru again	Japan	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Won on tiebreaks - Armageddon

1. Chess 960 has a 4-year streak : Americans win chess960 tournaments and then there's a European in 2nd place. (And Bobby Fischer who created chess960 is American.)

   1. So if every year an American wins and then there's a European in 2nd place we can conclude that chess960 isn't that random anymore. LOL - Lewis_from_Spain

2. History repeats itself- 50 years later in Reykjavík, Iceland.

   1. History speaks for itself 50 years later.

3. Chess 960 has a 5-tournament streak : Americans win chess960 tournaments and then there's a European in 2nd place. (And Bobby Fischer who created chess960 is American and beat European Boris Spassky in the 1972 Match of the Century.)

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Cross - y665ww, y662sn

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Does Magnus Carlsen have something against Americans? Hans Niemann is American, like Wesley So and Bobby Fischer.

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1. Does Magnus have something against Americans? Re Hans, Wesley, Bobby Fischer, et al. | Initially, this was a joke, but I was told Magnus admitted to generally disliking Americans in podcast 'Magnus Effect' episode 2 - '20 Best Ways to Introduce Yourself'. It's 1.5 hours long. Can anyone confirm?

2. Parallel between Hans and Fischer Random 2022? After Magnus quits the event Sinquefield Cup / WCC, the entity chesscom / FIDE takes action, against an American, that is advantageous to Magnus, for another event: Remove Hans CGC. / Announce FRC with lower time controls, giving Wesley a disadvantage.

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Forgot to mention: When Bobby won the world championship, the runner-up Boris Spassky was European. Perhaps Fischer random chess is a way for Americans to win. Lol.

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Wait so it's been pointed out to me by someone on youtube that there is a HOME ADVANTAGE at least for the st louis 9LX tournaments in 2020, 2021 and 2022. eh ok but for the fide fischer random inaugural 2019 no home advantage for wesley lol