Before each game, a lottery draw with a bowl of wooden balls determines how the chess board will be scrambled, and the players convene to discuss strategies for the new arrangement of pieces.

In Star Trek franchise, there is no dearth of interesting props and the tri-dimensional chess is one such artifact that continues to spark curiosity among the Trekkies.

Ahead of the second event of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Paris, where he will be joined by compatriots D Gukesh, R ...