This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE ...

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

As the revolutionary Freestyle Chess Grand Slam 2025 gets underway on 7 February, we take a look at the players competing in ...

Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...

Finishing eighth among 10 participants, Gukesh just about made it to the knockout stage edging out Vladimir Fedoseev of ...

German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the ...

World champion D Gukesh will take on Fabiano Caruana of the United States in the two-game quarter-final after the latter ...

The confusion was regarding the world championship issue and FIDE had issued a waiver to players which stated that they weren ...

Vincent Keymer, meanwhile, completes a fairytale victory over Magnus Carlsen by holding the world No 1 to a draw in Game 2 of ...