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, challenging FIDE's classical format. This shift draws support due to the heavy ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Gukesh finishes last at Freestyle Chess Grand Slam after loss to Firouzja, ends campaign winless
The test of time started in the middle game when Gukesh made a mistake and had to part with his queen for two pieces ...
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 ...
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.
Gukesh finishes last at Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, loses to Firouzja
World champion D Gukesh ended the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam finishing last after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster ...
Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
Freestyle Chess Tour 2025: Gukesh holds Firouzja to draw after superb fightback; Keymer wins Game 1 of final vs Caruana
Though he failed to snap his winless run on the seventh and penultimate day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in ...
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Chess kings and queens: WashU Chess Club’s semi-annual Rapid and Blitz Tournament draws several titled players
In collaboration with the St. Louis Chess Club, the WashU Chess Club hosted the WashU Rapid and Blitz tournaments on Feb. 8.
D Gukesh, Magnus Carlsen put Freestyle Chess vs FIDE controversy to rest; players reach temporary agreement in meeting
D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen are currently participating at the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.