The Norwegian has suggested several times to make a change of modality. In an ancient sport like chess, where every move has ...

Key to that effort is Freestyle’s presentation, which is far less staid and formal than other global chess events. The pieces are placed randomly on the board, and a time limit is enforced ...

Reuters pic What also makes this streak mega-wild is the context. Freestyle chess, or Chess960, involves randomising the starting position of pieces, throwing opening theory out the window. No ...

Controversial American Grandmaster Niemann added that he intended to fulfill his obligation of undergoing a polygraph test ...

Not only did Magnus Carlsen recreate the 26-piece position perfectly after looking at the board from a game that was played ...

Next month, from June 10 to 15, many of the global chess elite will visit London for the €500,000 Fide World Rapid and Blitz ...

World number four Arjun Erigaisi was outplayed by Ian Nepomniachtchi in the opening game of the 5-9 place tiebreaker at the ongoing Freestyle Chess Grand Slam.

Magnus Carlsen not just recreated the position -- which had appeared during Bobby Fischer’s game against Donald Byrne in 1956 ...

There were caveats. Freestyle chess, where the positions of the back row pieces are randomised, leads to significantly more decisive results than the classical game. Only Keymer, of Carlsen’s ...