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 ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
A 960° turn in chess: Magnus Carlsen’s freestyle chess takes on FIDE’s rule-bound world
Indian elections' 'resort politics' is paralleled in chess with the introduction of freestyle chess by Magnus Carlsen, ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
It was much more than just a game with 64 squares and 32 pieces. “The names of Karpov ... and draws are worth nothing, the 1984 World Chess Championship began on September 10.
Chess and the dispute over 'freestyle'
A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with millions on the line.
Freestyle Chess Tour 2025: Gukesh holds Firouzja to draw after superb fightback; Keymer wins Game 1 of final vs Caruana
Though he failed to snap his winless run on the seventh and penultimate day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in ...
Chinese chess star Wei Yi praises Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa's hunger to win, suggests change for classical tournaments
Chinese chess grandmaster Wei Yi has lauded the fierce competitive spirit of India’s rising stars, Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa, ...
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On the Chess Circuit
On​ the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was ...
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Chess and the dispute over 'freestyle'
"We made clear that we want to keep the world championship title as ... regarded as the inventor of freestyle chess. As the opening positioning of the pieces are drawn at the start, the ...