871:, the original discussion on this, SMcCandlish wrote that "sources do not consistently capitalize them." Okay, sure, for sports / games / terms that aren't consistently capitalized, I agree that they they shouldn't be capitalized. But that needs to be shown on a case-by-case basis that capitalization is inconsistent or unclear. If 80% of sports/games are lowercase, what to do about the 20% that are consistently uppercased, like the Hearts example above? Lowercasing them as well by osmosis is clearly wrong. Anyway, checking, a huge number of these variants are sourced to David Pritchard's "Encyclopedia of Chess Variants" and thus not easily checkable, so it sounds like we should be asking what the usage is in that book and other reliable sources.
968:"Fischer-random" actually used to be called out in the lede, but that's just an alternative name that didn't catch on. The other sources you found are all really old and back before the variant was popularized, or are just descriptions rather than titles. When I went looking - cursorily, I could be wrong! - I was only looking at recent sources, e.g. do a normal Google search, and they universally used "Fischer Random Chess" (Or Chess960). This variant has gotten more publicity in the past 5 years than from 1995-2015 combined, so it's definitely a check the age of the sources matter.
923:. Checking sources for that, they generally just use "Fischer Random" in running text, but that's because it's obvious chess is being talked about. When Chess is mentioned, it's usually capitalized, but sometimes this is as part of a tournament name? I can't find any use of a lowercase chess, oddly enough. So for this more prominent variant, it tentatively looks like it might actually merit a capital C "chess". See
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