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

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 ...

ON FEBRUARY 7th the inaugural tournament of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will begin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. My anticipation is immense. At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top ...

The event is owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, and is part of a soft power strategy designed to ... Carlsen about his role in Freestyle Chess, where the positions of the back ...

After he walked away from the classical Fide World Championship cycle in 2022, Carlsen has been a promoter of Freestyle Chess (chess960), backed by German entrepreneur Jan Buettner. Magnus Carlsen ...

PARIS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE) and Magnus Carlsen escalated when the governing body hit out at the Freestyle Chess Players Club ...

He and fellow competitors in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will compete under a version of the game that randomises the starting position of the kings, queens, bishops, knights and rooks so ...

The much-anticipated match between world champion Viswanathan Anand and his protege D Gukesh at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour has been cancelled as Anand withdrew unexpectedly. This decision ...