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The Greatest Chess Player of All Time Is Bored With Chess
Top players and casual hobbyists alike want games that are spontaneous tests of chess skill rather than endless duels of memorized sequences. That’s where Fischer Random comes in. Popularized by ...
Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
The pair devised a new chess tour to address their concerns. Carlsen suggested the rules: Chess960, or Fischer Random chess, a version of chess first proposed by Fischer, the American grand master.
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Has India’s Arjun Erigaisi solved the ‘freestyle’ chess riddle?
But India's Arjun Erigaisi seems to have found a cheat code. In an interview with freestyle-chess.com, India No. 2 Erigaisi ...
Hikaru Nakamura drops a major statement on his future: 'Lately I haven’t been enjoying chess very much'
American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who occupies the No 2 slot in the latest FIDE Classical ratings and is also the reigning Fischer Random world champion, made the statement after pulling off a ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.