India may lose the opportunity to host the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour due to a lack of investor support. Organizers are ...

In an open letter to FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky, German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner has also questioned the chess governing ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

Legendary Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand has withdrawn from the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour amid the ongoing dispute between Magnus Carlsen and FIDE. Anand’s decision comes as tensions rise ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

Viswanathan Anand’s absence means that fans will not get a chance to witness the much-awaited match between the Indian legend ...

Magnus Carlsen criticised FIDE after co-founding Freestyle Chess Players Club with Jan Henric Beuttner, which led to a ...

Calling the collaboration between Freestyle Chess and Fide “increasingly strained”, Buettner claimed that Fide president Arkady Dvorkovich’s invitation to Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana to play a ...

FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social media post.

Five-time World Chess champion, Magnus Carlsen has won the first-ever Freestyle Friday tournament on Chess.com. The Norwegian ...

The feud between FIDE and Magnus Carlsen’s Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) is intensifying, adding more drama to the ongoing controversy.

The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off next month in Germany with 10 of the top players in the world before legs in Paris, New York, Delhi and Cape Town ...