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 ...

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German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the inaugural event of the new Freestyle Grand Slam in Wangels, Germany, last ...

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, ...

Chess legends Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov are set to rekindle their famous rivalry in St. Louis, starting Wednesday, at an exhibition event titled “Clutch Chess: The Legends.” The 12-game ...

Two former world chess champions, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand, played a 12-game exhibition match in the Chess960 variant in St Louis, USA, last week, the result of which was unavailable at ...