Freestyle chess, also known as chess960 or Fischer Random, is a chess variant. Learn about what it is, why it's played, and more.

The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is a series of Chess960 tournaments in 2025 organized by Freestyle Chess Operations. It will consist of five "Grand Slam" tournaments following the …

Learn everything about the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 - location, format, time control, and more.

5 days ago · Freestyle Chess, also known as Fischer Random, radically reimagines the game by randomising the placement of back-rank pieces like the king, queen and bishops, leaving …

5 days ago · German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner is the driving force behind the Freestyle Chess events, the series of tournaments that could shake up the chess world. Along with his …

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Jan 25, 2025 · Freestyle chess is a variant of chess that was popularised by the legendary Bobby Fischer way back in 1996. It’s chess with a twist. In regular chess, positions of chess pieces …

Apr 8, 2024 · Only a few weeks after the successful inaugural edition of the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge in Weissenhaus (Germany), Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner are …

The Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge was an 8-player over-the-board classical Chess960 tournament that took place at Gut Weißenhaus in Wangels, Germany from February 9–16, …

Freestyle Chess removes all opening theory and essentially ensures a level-playing field with no prior knowledge. This means, no more memorising 30 moves to achieve an advantage of …