What is Freestyle Chess?
Freestyle Chess is a competition between humans who are allowed to use any technical or human support for selecting their moves. The major difference to correspondence chess is the much faster speed of play. Freestyle Chess is very similar to “Advanced Chess”, introduced by Garry Kasparov, in which use of computer however is limited and external human assistance excluded. The first big Freestyle Tournament with a number of well-known International titleholders among the participants was held in May/June 2005 on the Playchess server. The rate of play in the main tournament was 45 min. per game + 5 sec. per move. In the playoffs it was 60 min. + 15 sec., and this has become the standard of the PAL/CSS Freestyle tournaments. In the 7th PAL/CSS Freestyle Tournament a rate of play of 90 min. + 30 sec. was tried, and this likewise found many advocates, who expect a strengthening of the human factor by this. 2. Is really “anything allowed” in Freestyle Chess? No, unsporting behavior to get an
