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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...