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

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

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen shared a text that FIDE chief Dvorkovich had sent to his father, Henrik, before demanding the ...

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

World Champion D Gukesh starts his journey in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, a new format birthed by Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, with mixed results. Despite controversies with FIDE, the ...

Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) reiterated that no agreement between the sport’s global body and the Freestyle ...

Legendary chess player Judit Polgar was left speechless what the bizarre situation involving Gukesh and Nodirbek in round 1 ...

We will be playing Freestyle Chess, a variant I hold dear and view ... I enjoy the length of time allowed under the rules. My title defence in 2018 against Fabiano Caruana, for instance, pushed ...

Further talks with Fide futile, says Freestyle Chess promoter Jan Buettner; Fide says Freestyle Chess refused to acknowledge ...

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

Carlsen and Gukesh will face-off in round nine of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour at Weissenhaus in Germany on Saturday.