Republican and Herald, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Thursday, June 20, 1996
Bobby Fischer Presents New Chess Game
Buenos Aires, Argentina (AP) — Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer wants to bring the fun back into chess. To do it, he has created “Fischerandom,” a computerized shuffler that randomly distributes chess pieces on the back row of the chess board at the start of each game.
That creates 960 possible variations of starting positions — the first modification to the game in 500 years, the Argentine Chess Club said.