Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...
Chess GM Hikaru Joins Team Falcons for Esports World Cup
Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is the latest in a wave of chess player signings before the 2025 Esports World Cup.
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen broke a dress code with jeans. Now he's selling them for charity
Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is turning his controversial denim into some greens — for charity. The Norwegian chess ...
World No. 1 Chess star Magnus Carlsen puts 'forbidden jeans' up for auction
Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen auctioned off the jeans that led to his disqualification from a round in the World ...
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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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Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
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 ...
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D Gukesh to step down as world chess champion? World No. 3 urges Indian GM, Praggnanandhaa, Erigaisi to boycott FIDE
World No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura has urged the world's top chess players, such as D Gukesh, to boycott FIDE, which could put his world championship title under doubt The FIDE is currently at war with ...
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Vincent Keymer, part of D Gukesh’s World C’ship team, downs Magnus Carlsen; enters Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus finals
The German, who was also one of D Gukesh’s second at the World Chess Championship in Singapore last year, earlier sealed a win against Carlsen in the first game of the semi-finals on Tuesday ...
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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 ...