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

World champion D Gukesh finished last after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game of their seventh-place playoff match at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam.

Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa did not anticipate such a "crazy day" as he defeated the current World Champion D Gukesh to win his first Tata Steel Chess Tournament after eight hours of stellar play.

Laman Ismayilova Read more The finalists for the Azerbaijan Chess Championship have been determined, Azernews reports. I ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

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Reigning world champion D Gukesh is yet to win a single game after six days of competition at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam ...

Arjun Erigaisi had a topsy-turvy campaign at the recently-concluded Tata Chess Masters, and it also saw him lose his India No ...

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Stev Bonhage via Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025/Instagram World champion D Gukesh bowed out of Freestyle Grand Slam chess after losing his second straight quarter ...

Carlsen and Gukesh will face-off in round nine of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour at Weissenhaus in Germany on Saturday.

Played under the competition’s old rules, where the champion is the first to win six games and draws are worth nothing, the 1984 World Chess Championship ... for comment, current FIDE CEO ...