Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...

The world of chess has gotten caught in a major tug-of-war between the freestyle chess of Magnus Carlsen and the classical chess of FIDE. This battle could redefine chess's future, splitting focus ...

Welcome to Team Liquid.” The reference is a dig at FIDE, the global governing body for chess, with whom Carlsen has butted heads recently over the Freestyle Chess Tour. The disagreements between ...

In this scheme of things, is Magnus Carlsen’s ongoing battle with FIDE a noble fight for fairness, or is this a man who now thinks he is bigger than the game? Carlsen, ‘bored of classical chess’, gave ...

Image credit: Reuters/Samay Raina American chess star and popular streamer Hikaru Nakamura will be among those in action at the FIDE World Cup that will be taking place in India later this year, and ...