Two dozen programmers from around the world have signed up to compete in Germany next month in the first computer chess tournament devoted to Chess960, a game variant invented by fugitive chess genius ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

A few years ago, I wrote about the emergence of a new type of chess called Fischer Random Chess in which the pieces are placed in random positions behind the pawns at the start of each game. Since ...

Bengaluru: Reigning world champion D Gukesh just lived through an anomaly of a week – a rare, winless run at a tournament earlier this month. Fischer Random, or Freestyle Chess, as packaged in its ...

Freestyle Chess (also known as Fischer Random and Chess 960) has announced a $1m tournament in each of five continents Freestyle Chess, which made an impressive debut last month, has firmed up its ...