Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

FIDE has urged the Freestyle series to refrain from using the "World Championship" designation. The federation has made it ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

After a year defined by organisational triumphs and contentious moments, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich unveiled on ...

The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE) and Magnus Carlsen escalated when the governing body ...

"These rules have been in place for years and are ... to get them not to sign with Freestyle," a reference to the Freestyle Chess tournament. "Basically threatening them that they wouldn't be ...

The FIDE statement also puts in a quandary the participation of India's D Gukesh and Viswanathan Anand in the high-profile ...

Rules were rules. When FIDE wouldn’t budge ... And he’s spearheading a freestyle-chess startup, which features a format in which pieces on the back rank are lined up in random order.