Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signaling ...

Magnus Carlsen’s infamous ‘jeansgate’ scandal at the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships in New York led to his ...

This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE ...

Freestyle chess demands that Gukesh fights the habit of calculation and preparation, something he has aced while becoming ...

Arjun Erigaisi has been signed by Gen G eSports to compete for a $1.5 million prize pool at the 2025 eSports World Cup in ...

World Champion D Gukesh starts his journey in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, a new format birthed by Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, with mixed results. Despite controversies with FIDE, the ...

FIDE organized its first World Championship in 1948 ... but someone who was representative of the new wave.” Gennadi "Genna" Sosonko, Russian-born chess grandmaster Kasparov, on the other ...

If you scrunch your eyes up just as an offensive line sets for a play, the outlines of the players look like chess pieces ...

The intent of Freestyle Tour’s organisers to crown the winner of their event as a ‘world champion’ had been the sticking ...