Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

D Gukesh ends the Round Robin stage in Weissenhaus without a single victory, suffering a 46-move loss against Magnus Carlsen ...

D Gukesh has admitted that handling the success of winning the World Chess Championship has been difficult, but he has stayed ...

The confusion was regarding the world championship issue and FIDE had issued a waiver to players which stated that they weren’t allowed to participate in a non-recognised world championship. To ease ...

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

Niemann has been involved in a public feud with Carlsen since the five-time world champion accused his American opponent of ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent ...

D Gukesh drew four and lost one of his five games on the opening day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour in Weissenhauss, ...

In the first big chess tournament of 2025, the best players in the world are all closely bunched together near the top of the ...

However, this will mark a big test for Gukesh, with Carlsen still considered the best chess player in the world. Carlsen has recently stepped away from classical chess events, only participating ...

T he ongoing FIDE vs Freestyle Chess controversy has created much furore lately. The first week of February saw FIDE release ...