FIDE Master Naim Haque claimed his student, nine-year-old Ryan Rashid Mugdha who was using his Chess.com account, defeated ...

Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...

“No player is above the game. Fide’s decision will define chess’s future. I hope they choose the right side of history,” GM Hans Niemann, wrote on X. Carlsen had accused Niemann of ...

Ian staged a comeback in the first game, and then made it 2-2 ... In December, he lost to Carlsen in the final of the Champions Chess tour. Meanwhile in September, he won the Gashimov Memorial.

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

In a span of six days, a pair of jeans and an unprecedented shared world title laid bare the already simmering rift between ...

The player’s shock withdrawal prompted the International Chess Federation to relax a dress code that penalized him for ...

The championship reached the decisive fourteenth game, and it looked like it ... is also known as the ‘Wimbledon of chess’. Magnus Carlsen is the most successful player in the history of ...

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body ...

The time limit of 10 minutes per player per game, with no increment, implies that moving fast will be a priority. The FT recently interviewed Carlsen about his role in Freestyle Chess ...

The public got to know about the cheating scandal in September when the CXA issued its life-time bans on Wang Yuefei and Wang ...