Published at lesswrong.com
Chess is fairly well known, but there's also an entire world of chess variants, games that take the core ideas of chess and change either a few details or completely reimagine the game, either to improve the game, or just change the flavour of the game.
Entering the last round of the 2020 Russian Championship (or the Russian Extreme Mega Stupendous Superfinal, or whatever they're calling it this year) Ian Nepomniachtchi and Sergey Karjakin were tied for first, with Vladimir Fedoseev a point behind.
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Published at aeon.co
Arriving at the chess board is like entering an eagerly anticipated party. All my old friends are there: the royal couple, their associates, the reassuringly straight lines of noble infantry.