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 ...
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 ...
Magnus Carlsen Favored To Win Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus
Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle ...
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Praggnanandhaa wins Tata Steel Chess Masters in tie-breakers as Gukesh loses first game as world champion
A dramatic final day of the Tata Steel Chess Masters saw R Praggnanandha win the title in sudden death, defeating world champion D Gukesh. The two Indians had a joint lead going into Round 13 ...
Azerbaijan Chess Championship Finalists Determined
Laman Ismayilova Read more The finalists for the Azerbaijan Chess Championship have been determined, Azernews reports. I ...
Chess and the dispute over 'freestyle'
A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with ...
'Crazy Day': R Praggnanandhaa Exclaims Delight After Defeating World Champion Gukesh At Tata Steel Chess
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa did not anticipate such a "crazy day" as he defeated the current World Champion D Gukesh to win ...
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, ...
Arjun Erigaisi is the current India No. 2, behind reigning world champion D Gukesh.
Arjun Erigaisi had a topsy-turvy campaign at the recently-concluded Tata Chess Masters, and it also saw him lose his India No ...
Fabiano Caruana on 18-year-old World Champion Gukesh resigning after 18 moves: ‘I wouldn’t do it quite so early’
Fabiano Caruana was the first to qualify for the semifinals of the ongoing Weissenhaus leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam ...
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Magnus Carlsen to Anna Cramling: World’s most attractive chess grandmasters and players
Intelligence is attractive, and so are these 11 chess grandmasters and players, whose moves have us locked in checkmate.
D Gukesh's steady heart-rate stands out in Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus event despite underwhelming campaign
Reigning world champion D Gukesh is yet to win a single game after six days of competition at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam ...