Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140,000 people worldwide.

Freestyle chess, sometimes known as "no-castling chess ... to alter the initial order of the pieces or eliminate some traditional rules to encourage improvisation and reduce reliance on ...

D Gukesh’s Freestyle chess struggles continued as he finished ... Maybe the players who have this kind of feeling for where the pieces belong like Magnus or Vincent… not everybody has that.” ...

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 ...

Before the Fide team championship, the chess calendar has two ... for Gukesh, the Freestyle events, where the placing of the back rank pieces are randomised, is not of major importance and ...

It’s called Freestyle Chess, or Chess960, or Fischer Random Chess ... Basically, you randomize the pieces on the back rank, and now it’s really hard to memorize things. Without opening theory, the ...

World No.1 Magnus Carlsen outdid himself to achieve a perfect 9/9 score as he won the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 on Monday. In fact, Carlsen had won the tournament in round eight itself and ...

Magnus Carlsen finds himself as the only unbeaten player at the Grenke Freestyle Chess Open 2025 with an unblemished record ... who gladly obliged before defeating the Frenchman with black pieces in ...

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 memorising lines or ...