The first week of February saw the chess world caught up in controversy as the Freestyle Chess Players Club failed to reach ...

T he Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour begins on February 7, and organisers will be hoping to get past the recent controversy.

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

After a war of words with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen, FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky had taken aim at American Grandmaster and popular ...

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has responded to Magnus Carlsen’s bold suggestion that he is bigger than the organization.

Freestyle Chess head Jan Henric Buettner recently gave interviews to Norwegian media calling FIDE "stupid" and saying they ...

In a video posted on his YouTube handle, Hikaru Nakamura called out Sutovsky's long tweet where the FIDE official took ...

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour boss Jan Henric Buettner and all-time great Magnus Carlsen have called on International Chess ...

FIDE CEO discusses World Junior Chess Championship, Magnus Carlsen controversy, India's chess progress, and chess in the ...

So honestly my patience with them was not very big to begin with," Carlsen said. FIDE’s CEO Emil Sutovsky responded to Carlsen's claims, calling them a "lie." "The only thing we insisted on ...

Calling the collaboration between Freestyle Chess and Fide “increasingly strained”, Buettner claimed that Fide president ...