Editing Chess960 (section)

==Naming==
[[File:Schmitt,Hans-Walter 2011 Frankfurt.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|right|Hans-Walter Schmitt, Frankfurt 2011]]
The variant has held a number of different names. It was originally known as "Fischerandom" or "Fischerandom chess", the name given by Fischer.

Hans-Walter Schmitt, chairman of the Frankfurt Chess Tigers e.V. and an advocate of the variant, started a brainstorming
process for creating a new name, which had to meet the requirements of leading [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]s; specifically, the new name and its parts:
* should not contain part of the name of any grandmaster;
* should not include negatively biased or "spongy" elements (such as "random" or "freestyle"); and
* should be universally understood.
The name "Chess960" (pronounced "Chess nine-sixty") was chosen to reflect the 960 possible starting positions in the game.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chess960 & Fischer Random Chess Variant |url=https://www.chess.com/terms/chess960 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Chess.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

In conversations with [[Helgi Ólafsson]], Bobby Fischer discussed the initiative that renamed the variant "Chess960" and remarked, "They believe my image is so bad that they have given it another name." Fischer later expressed that he liked the name "Chess960" and sometimes used the name.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ólafsson |first=Helgi |author-link=Helgi Ólafsson |title=Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions |publisher=Continental Sales, Incorporated |year=2014 |isbn=978-90-5691-436-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RCBBCwAAQBAJ |access-date=2024-12-14 |pages=82,110}}</ref>

Chess960 tournaments hosted by the [[Saint Louis Chess Club]] since 2019 are branded as "Chess 9LX", where the name is a combination of the [[Arabic numerals|Arabic numeral]] 9 and the [[Roman numerals]] LX (60).<ref>{{cite web |title=Chess960 in St. Louis: Caruana, Svidler, So and Nakamura win |website=Chess News |date=2019-09-05 |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/champions-showdown-2019-chess960 |access-date=2024-10-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=(PeterDoggers) |first=Peter Doggers |title=Kasparov Rusty On 1st Day Champions Showdown Chess9LX |website=Chess.com |date=2019-09-03 |url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/champions-showdown-chess9lx-day-1-kasparov |access-date=2024-10-28}}</ref> The name "Freestyle chess" has also been used by the [[Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge]] and the [[Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour]] promoted by Magnus Carlsen and [[Jan Henric Buettner]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Chess |last=Striegel |first=Lawrence |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|via=Newspapers.com |date=2024-03-31 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun/159511086/ |access-date=2024-12-13}}</ref>