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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Esports organization LGD Gaming has announced the signing of a new contract.

A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with millions on the line.