The world champion went winless at a recent event, in a format he looked out of depth. Trainer Gajewski says they’re debating ...

D Gukesh was off to an underwhelming start in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, failing to win a single game in the ...

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour sponsor Jan Henric Buettner has revealed he didn’t seek Magnus Carlsen’s approval before ...

Indian elections' 'resort politics' is paralleled in chess with the introduction of freestyle chess by Magnus Carlsen, ...

Also, other members of the FCPC, including Carlsen, are in agreement with Niemann’s inclusion. “Magnus does not like it, but ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

While Gukesh is out of the quarterfinal, his time in Weissenhaus still continues, as he will battle for the fifth to eighth ...

Freestyle chess, by randomising the starting point of the game, destroys this advantage of memory and pattern recognition; it ...

World champion D Gukesh finished eighth at the German Freestyle Chess Grand Slam after losing to Alireza Firouzja. Despite a ...

Saying that it is "not too difficult to make an exceptional event for 10 people", FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky invoked the ...

Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle chess, previously known as Chess960 and Fischer Random. The starting ...

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