I played a little bit online a few years ago, but gave up after I realized that the main path to getting better is memorising the opening book. Not my idea of fun. There's still a lively community though.
play Fischer random. (hating what the game had become with memorizing openings was...) exactly his reason for creating it. also known as chess960 https://lichess.org/variant/chess960
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Plus Fischer is a fellow white who gets an honoraryan pass.
No, I never knew what I was supposed to do either. But still held my own.
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