Magnus Carlsen, widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time, has been in the spotlight of late for his ...

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

Magnus Carlsen’s walkout from the World Rapid ... the governing body of chess. Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic genius, famously clashed with FIDE in the 1970s, and Garry Kasparov took a bold ...

The Tata Steel Chess, which will be Gukesh Dommaraju’s first event since being crowned world champion in Singapore, gets ...

Magnus Carlsen, the global No 1 ... were both skilled blitz players, while Bobby Fischer won an unofficial world blitz championship in 1970 ahead of the Soviet elite. In the past decade the ...

To explain just how much of the collective is needed to win here, consider this fact -- Bobby Fischer only ever won two Olympiad silvers. Magnus Carlsen has yet to win an Olympiad medal of any colour.

Former world champion Magnus Carlsen, who remains No. 1 in ... chess variant that was invented by the legendary US champion Bobby Fischer: In "Fischer Random," the starting position is drawn ...

In part, this was because expectations for the world championship, in general, have been low ever since Magnus Carlsen ... of legitimacy before (e.g., Bobby Fischer, who similarly refused to ...

The world of chess had a rather tumultuous end to 2024, with top players like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura taking ... is a variant of chess that was popularised by the legendary Bobby Fischer ...