Dear chess fans,
not only is today evening round 2 of the Hivechess Season 20 played, but today is also the highly-expected start of the 2025 Chess960/Fischerrandom "Grand Slam" Tour, or "Freestyle" Chess as it is called (to make it more suitable for the masses).
It is played in Weissenbach, Germany, official website: https://www.freestyle-chess.com/
This is the list of players:
https://www.chess.com/events/info/2025-freestyle-chess-grand-slam-weissenhaus
Today and tomorrow it starts of with a round-robin rapid tournament (10+10), to identify who plays against who in the knock-out stage of the best 8. This knock-out is played via 2 classic games! So lots of chess960 in the coming days!