Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
Chess legend Magnus Carlsen puts ‘forbidden jeans’ up for auction
OSLO - Norwegian chess legend Magnus Carlsen has put the jeans that got him disqualified from a chess championship in New ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between ...
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Chess and the dispute over 'freestyle'
"We are concerned with the integrity of the chess world," FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich told DW. "We made clear that we want to keep the world championship title as something that is governed ...
Chess GM Hikaru Joins Team Falcons for Esports World Cup
Chess is seeing a massive influx of attention in the esports world, and a string of organizations are signing talented players ahead of the 2025 Esports World C ...