Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...
Freestyle Chess Grand Slam: World Champion Gukesh Ends Winless Campaign With Loss To Firouzja
Gukesh thus concluded his forgettable campaign in the tournament at Weissenhaus resort without a single win. After a lost battle that ended in a draw on the first day, the ball was in Gukesh's court ...
A 960° turn in chess: Magnus Carlsen’s freestyle chess takes on FIDE’s rule-bound world
Indian elections' 'resort politics' is paralleled in chess with the introduction of freestyle chess by Magnus Carlsen, ...
Hikaru Nakamura looks forward to meeting Samay Raina during Chess World Cup this year: 'It would be a lot of fun'
Nakamura and Raina have also appeared on videos and live streams together, engaging in hilarious conversations while making playing a game of chess together. The 37-year-old American GM is yet to meet ...
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Dubai inmates' team honoured by FIDE for winning international chess tournament
The inmates’ team beat 115 other chess squads from 51 countries at the tournament organised by the Cook County Office in Chicago, and held online ...
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Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, Weissenhaus 2025: Winless Gukesh finishes on bottom after losing to Firouzja; Keymer beats Caruana to clinch top spot
D. Gukesh ended in eighth position after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game of their ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
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Clearfield Chess Club keeps winter blues in 'check'
The Clearfield Chess Club is the perfect way to keep the winter blues in “check,” according to club President David Sheaffer.
Arjun Erigasi ends up earning more than D Gukesh’s Weissenhaus prize money as non-participating Freestyle Chess member
Arjun Erigaisi is a FCPC member, and he qualified for the prize money as a non-participating player. He had to meet the Elo rating criteria.
Freestyle Chess Grand Slam: D Gukesh Loses To Alireza Firouzja, Ends Without Win At Eighth
World champion D Gukesh ended in eighth position after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game of their seventh-place playoff match at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam i ...