Fischer random chess
chess960

Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) is similar but has fewer starting positions.

The third restriction is taken from Fischer Random Chess to preserve castling ability.

Torre was involved in 1996 when Fischer Random Chess was launched.

During his stay he played many games of Fischer Random Chess and helped the sisters analyse their games.

He currently recommends the name Chess960 in preference to Fischer Random Chess for the variant.

Svidler is a noted proponent of Chess960 (also called Fischer Random Chess).

The first restriction is taken from Fischer Random Chess for the purpose of balancing the power of colorbound bishops.

This time, Aronian won the match 5-3 to become the third ever Fischer Random Chess World Champion.

Double Fischer Random Chess: the same as Chess960, except the White and Black starting positions do not mirror each other.

This game combines ideas of Fischer Random Chess and Capablanca Chess.

Yet, the "evacuation" concept avoids the complex and awkward rules of castling in Fischer Random Chess (Chess960).

It is better than FEN for certain chess variants, such as Fischer Random Chess.

Fischer advocated Fischer Random Chess, another chess variant, in which the initial position of the pieces is determined at random.

It combines the piece set and 10x8 board from Capablanca Chess with the permutation idea of Fischer Random Chess.

Chess960 (or Fischer Random Chess): the placement of the pieces on the first rank is randomised, and the pieces on the eighth rank mirror it.

Of all chess variants currently supported, two of the most-played variants are probably Fischer Random Chess and Grand Chess.

Sun Tzu chess - combination of Double Fischer Random Chess (like Chess960, but with different positions for white and black), crazyhouse and dark chess.

This notation is recommended in Play Stronger Chess by Examining Chess 960: Usable Strategies for Fischer Random Chess Discovered.

Fischer Random Chess was selected as the April 2002 "Recognized Variant of the Month" by The Chess Variant Pages (ChessVariants.org).

In 2001, Lékó narrowly defeated Grandmaster Michael Adams in an eight-game Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) match played as part of the Mainz Chess Classic.

The traditional Forsyth-Edwards Notation is not sufficient to represent all possible positions in 8x8 Chess960 (aka Fischer Random Chess) or 10x8 Capablanca random chess (CRC).

FEN notation is critical for recording games in chess variants such as Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess), where the initial position is not necessarily the traditional initial position.

After his match, Fischer promoted a new type of chess called "Fischer Random Chess", where the pieces were randomly shuffled before the game so they would be on different squares to start every game.

Chess960 (or Fischer Random Chess) is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, publicly announced on June 19, 1996 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lékó was chosen because of the many novelties he has introduced to known chess theories, as well as his previous tournament win; in addition, Lékó has supposedly played Fischer Random Chess games with Fischer himself.

He won the first edition of the Chess960 Open held in Mainz, Germany.

In 2007 he successfully defended his title of Chess960 World Champion by beating Viswanathan Anand.

At the 2003 Mainz Chess Classic, he became Chess960 World Champion by beating Péter Lékó in an eight-game match.

Each game's starting position must be stored in the PGN for Chess960 and Capablanca random chess(CRC) (but not for traditional chess).

In 2007 Mainz Chess Classic Aronian successfully defended his title of Chess960 World Champion over Viswanathan Anand, while Victor Bologan won the Chess960 open tournament.

John Kipling Lewis's "Castling in Chess960: An appeal for simplicity" proposes the same rules for the initial position as Chess960, but proposes an alternative set of castling rules which Lewis has named "Orthodoxed Castling".