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Sports. Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge: Indian GM D Gukesh Loses Three Rounds, Finishes Sixth In Play-Offs Gukesh's day started on a tough note against Caruana who did not miss any trick in the ...

Freestyle Chess is a new name for an old idea, a variant in which the pieces on the back row — king, queen, rooks, ... The GOAT can finish only as high as third.

About Freestyle Chess. Freestyle Chess was founded in 2024 by Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, to revolutionize the game of chess. Capitalizing on the boom of interest in the sport, ...

Sports. Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge: Gukesh Takes Down Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren With his wins against reigning world champion Ding Liren and numero uno Magnus Carlsen, India's 17-year-old ...

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Expands Globally More than this tournament, Carlsen's relationship with Chess960 goes back. Last month, he inaugurated the much-awaited Freestyle Chess Grand Slam ...

O N FEBRUARY 7th the inaugural tournament of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will begin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. My anticipation is immense. At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s ...

Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, and backed by chess great ...

Hans Niemann, the chess grandmaster at the heart of an alleged cheating scandal, has yet to provide an explanation on his late withdrawal from the Freestyle Grand Slam in Paris.

LAS VEGAS, June 03, 2025--Freestyle Chess, the innovative chess league co-founded by Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner that prioritizes creativity over memorization, will bring their Grand ...

In Chess960/Freestyle chess, the pieces on the back rank are reshuffled, meaning that computer-backed preparations leading to sometimes dull openings, are meaningless.