Fischer Random, or Freestyle Chess, as packaged in its latest glitzy ... Fischer Random, where starting positions of the back rank pieces are randomised to minimise opening theory, has seen ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player ... back row of pieces, and both players play with the same arrangement. The format is an antidote to the classical game, in which patterns and ...

They say laughter is the best medicine, and lately, I’ve come to believe it. Trouble is, what’s funny these days?