Hikaru Nakamura won the Fischer Random world championship in Reykjavik, in an event which marked 50 years since Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in Iceland in the most famous match in chess history. Fischer Random is a chess variant where the back rank pieces are placed randomly, and is an effective way of escaping book openings.
Nakamura, 34, a five-time US champion who has become a streamer with more than a million followers, lost only one game throughout, though he needed an Armageddon at the end to clinch the final against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, who played under a neutral Fide flag.
