Photograph: Kind Courtesy Prague Masters Indian Grandmaster ... expectedly won the Superbet Rapid and Blitz tournament, an event on the Grand Chess tour, in Warsaw, on Wednesday.

As the top seed, Carlsen will aim to defend his titles in both the Rapid and Blitz formats. The stellar lineup also includes the strongest players from the biggest chess nations in the world ...

now has another international player of repute to boast about. After all, Aravindh is Gukesh's senior. The victory at Prague has earned him a wild card to the prestigious Grand Chess Tour in Poland.

The pinnacle of chess has weathered its fair share of controversies in recent years, including a cheating dustup, geopolitical tension, and players’ bizarre complaints about creaky floors.

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess ... share the Blitz title with long-time rival Nepomniachtchi has sparked outcry from some of the world’s top players ...

The world’s No 1 chess player Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially withdrawing as he refused to change out of a pair of jeans.

Getty Images But the global No. 1 chess player refused to change even after ... Carlsen also pulled out of the Blitz Chess Championships, which are set to take place after the current tournament.

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is at the World Blitz Championship — a competition ... Carlsen, from Norway, is the world's top chess player. He quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in ...

Magnus Carlsen has been disqualified from the World Rapid Chess ... each player has 15 minutes for the entire game plus a 10-second increment per move starting from the very first, and Blitz ...