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 ...
Vidit Gujrathi Explains Why Magnus Carlsen Targets FIDE, Viswanathan Anand – Here’s What He Said
Carlsen competed in the inaugural Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour opener in Weissenhaus, Germany, finishing third after a ...
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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Off-side: Governing sports in the age of superstars
From Ali to Carlsen, athletes have defied authorities, reshaping sport. Carlsen’s standoff with FIDE, however, blurs ...
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 ...
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, ...
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Vidit Gujrathi has a surprising take on Magnus Carlsen continuously targeting Viswanathan Anand says, 'Sometimes, artist becomes bigger than the art...'
Recently, the relationship between Magnus Carlsen, Norway's iconic chess player and FIDE, the world chess governing body, has ...
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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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Gukesh struggles, finishes last in Freestyle Chess Grand Slam
Hamburg: World champion D Gukesh finished last after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game ...
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 ...
D Gukesh’s coach responds to criticism, dissects winless Freestyle Chess streak: ‘When you calculate so well…’
D Gukesh's coach answered to criticism that the Indian GM's intuition is weak and felt that the problem lies somewhere else.
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.