The latest event in Kingston Chess Club’s summer programme was a “Fischer Random“tournament – so called because the late World Champion, like Magnus Carlsen in morerecent times, advocated the variant, in which the starting line-up of the pieces for eachgame is more or less randomised 1 , as a means of getting away from opening preparation. It is also known as Freestyle, or Chess960 (from the number of possible starting positions). The event was …
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