A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with millions on the line.

After his commanding win against the World Champion, Nakamura called out Gukesh's biggest weakness in the format: his lack of ...

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Freestyle chess, by randomising the starting point of the game, destroys this advantage of memory and pattern recognition; it ...

World champion D Gukesh bowed out of Freestyle Grand Slam chess after losing his second straight quarterfinal game against ...

The term ‘Freestyle Chess’ was born because Jan Henric Buettner felt that Fischer Random 960, the original version, sounded ...

"I would consider resigning as Black, although maybe I wouldn’t do it quite so early," said Fabio Caruana after beating D ...

Having lost the first game with white pieces, Gukesh did not last long against the American Grandmaster in a must-win tie ...

The Feb. 12 performance will include material from his most recent album, which addresses a lifelong medical issue.