It’s also well-known that playing as white offers at least a slight (but sometimes decisive) advantage during any given match ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Chess960 seems to hold special appeal for chess programmers. Because the placement of pieces is random, computers rely on lightning-fast processing, without retrieving archives of past moves from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

India's Grandmaster P Harikrishna finished on top in the ACCENTUS Chess960 tournament, part of the 53rd Biel Chess Festival 2020, with 5.5 points from seven rounds. German Vincent Keymer, 15, was the ...