Jan Henric Buettner

So he explained it to me.

So the way it works is basically you randomize the back rank.

It's something that Bobby Fischer has kind of promoted.

This is why it's called Fisher Random.

and thereby making the games starting to be exciting for the beginning and taking all of the learning by heart of all the lines and all the stuff out of it and really having the fun in the game again.

So then we built the whole tour and the whole tournaments around it with a lot of different things that we can do with it that make it more media savvy.

Yeah, that's so smart, because classical chess games are so long.

It's kind of boring, right?

Yes, exactly.

So first of all, they are very long, and they're boring as well.

Yeah, seven hours.

Yeah, they can be seven hours and so on.

And most of them end in a draw of all things.

At the high level, yeah.

So you watch like seven hours and then they say, okay, well, let's have a draw.

It's not really exciting.

And so with the freestyle, it can be also long if you have long thinking time, but this is why we reduced the tournament from eight days to five days.

And the games itself from 90 minutes per person and 30 seconds per player,

to 30 minutes, so we divided it by three.

So now the games will be much shorter.