MOSCOW, Oct 27 American Wesley So did not know the castling rules in the game with Russian grandmaster Jan Nepomniachtchi at the Fischer World Chess Championship, according to the Chess 24 portal. On Tuesday, the Bobby Fischer World Chess Championship started in Reykjavik (Iceland). Nepomniachtchi had two mini-matches against So on Wednesday. In the first game of the confrontation, the Russian lost, and then won three victories over the American. In one of the games, a moment occurred that required the intervention of the judges. King So was in check, the American made castling, although according to the rules in this situation he could not do it. Nepomniachtchi did not understand how to react to this, and simply shrugged. After that, judges approached So, who explained the American was wrong. He immediately resigned. «Before, I just never read the rules of Fischer chess. I just played by feel,» So said after the match. Nepomniachtchi noted that So would not be able to castle the king in ordinary chess if he was in check. «As far as I know from the age of five, the king cannot castle during a check,» said the Russian. The World Championship is held according to the rules created by the 11th world champion American Robert Fischer, according to which the competitions are held not with a fixed, but with an arbitrary ( 960 variants are possible) by the initial arrangement of the figures. The time control for this tournament is 25 minutes for 30 moves plus 5 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 5 seconds per move starting from move 31. According to the results of two days of the tournament, Nepomniachtchi takes the second place in Group A with 5 points.
