Carlsen and Caruana will be playing a version of the game called Fischer Random chess, where the pieces on the back rank of the board are lined up in random order. Their match is more than a gimmick.

“But with Fischer Random … it’s a little bit looser ... The twist: The tour randomizes the starting positions of the chess board’s most important pieces, so each game begins with the ...

For two days in a row, I felt so clueless out of the opening phase. That’s the beauty of the game, it's supposed to be hard” ...