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Chess.com conducted online qualifying events open to these and other players. FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich commented: "It is an unprecedented move that the International Chess Federation recognizes a new variety of chess, so this was a decision that required to be carefully thought out. But we believe that Fischer Random is a positive ...
The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022 (WFRCC) was the second official world championship in Fischer Random Chess (also known as Chess960). [1] [2] The competition followed a similar format to the first championship in 2019, with qualifying stages open to all interested participants taking place online on chess.com and Lichess, and four qualified players joined four invited ...
The first qualifying round was open to all interested chess players without a title and was played online via the chess server chess.com. Each of 32 groups played a Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds and a time control of 10 minutes for the entire game plus an increment of 2 seconds per move. The top 5 players from each group qualified for ...
Magnus Carlsen co-organised the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T Challenge. Freestyle Chess is another name for Chess960, otherwise known as Fischer random chess, a variant of chess where there are 958 different possible starting positions (minus the standard chess position and the same position with kings and queens swapped).
Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position of the pieces on the back rank. It was introduced by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1996 to reduce the emphasis on opening preparation and to encourage creativity in play.
PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com.Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch streamers.The first four PogChamps tournaments took place over the course of two weeks, while the fifth iteration lasted four weeks. [1]
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The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool of US$ 1 million. The tour consisted of four super-tournaments (elite competitions), with the winners then playing in a Grand Final in August 2020.