Yet an opening move with a low probability of success in conventional chess might be a winner in Chess960, a decades-old variant of the ... 2013 to June 2021 on lichess.org, a popular internet ...

The owners of the Lichess website, which hosts free online chess games, was awakened to that realization when they were approached by a blind chess player looking to join their community.

Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that ... Chess.com and Lichess. Chess.com told Reuters that in January, 493,500 games ...

CNN takes a look at some of the most popular chess variants with the help of Grandmaster and three-time British Champion David Howell. Most will be familiar with the rules of classical chess ...