Freestyle chess is now popular because of the abundance of knowledge about the standard starting position. It randomizes the opening and side-steps memorization by shuffling the pieces on the back ...

In Chess960/Freestyle chess, the pieces on the back rank are reshuffled, meaning that computer-backed preparations leading to sometimes dull openings, are meaningless. While FIDE has organised ...

A board of trustees is an appointed or elected group of individuals that has overall responsibility for the management of an organization. The board of trustees is typically the governing body of ...

Rocket Mortgage originates a significant volume of first-time-buyer-friendly FHA loans. It also offers a low-down-payment mortgage and gives qualified buyers help with closing costs.

D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa played out a bloodless draw in round 8 at the Tata Steel chess tournament that ended ... That led to an explosion of exchanges on the board with both queens, a rook pair ...

bishops cut across the board in sweeping diagonal movements, and the knights make sickle-like veering motions and retain the ability to hop over pieces. Over the years, freestyle chess has earned many ...

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on Thursday slammed President ... hazard” for his staffers but called the move a “new low.” “If Iran commits violence against any of these ...

He also calculated so-called "fragility scores," which indicate how easy it is to remove those critical chess pieces from the board. And he was able to apply this analysis to more than 20,000 ...

World No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura has urged the world's top chess players, such as D Gukesh, to boycott FIDE, which could put his world championship title under doubt The FIDE is currently at war with ...

Dan is a senior editor at Raw Story based in Colorado, producing and editing breaking political news. Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, and later ...

With extracurricular options spread around in a circle, kindergartener Sophie Li considered trying yoga, but after seeing the chess club advertised, she changed her mind. Now a fifth grader, Li earned ...