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 ...

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Jan Henric Buettner, an ultra-wealthy German Internet entrepreneur now living in Wilderness, is bringing the high-profile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viswanathan Anand is set to face Garry Kasparov in a special exhibition match in October this year. The exhibition match will be called ‘Clutch Chess’, and both players will take on each other in a ...

CHENNAI: 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. Harikrishna (Elo 2690) ...