It takes variant chess pieces that have been fantasized about for hundreds of years and makes them into a playable reality.

they built a working Trap Chess game. What is trap chess, you may ask? It’s a variant of chess where pieces randomly fall into traps at the change of turns. This is easy to simulate in a digital ...

With over 960 possible opening positions and no second time control, Nakamura and Carlsen reckon the best preparation is no ...

Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle chess, previously known as Chess960 and Fischer Random. The starting ...

World champion D Gukesh bowed out of Freestyle Grand Slam chess after losing his second straight quarterfinal game against ...