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.
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 ...
'I woke my poor wife and said...' Magnus Carlsen's trainer Peter Heine Nielsen recalls infamous 'jeansgate' scandal
Magnus Carlsen’s infamous ‘jeansgate’ scandal at the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships in New York led to his ...
In four years, how Viswanathan Anand's WACA shaped D Gukesh into the youngest World Chess Champion
Viswanathan Anand had only hoped that his ward would play the World Chess Championship one day, winning it by setting a new ...
Vincent Keymer, part of D Gukesh’s World C’ship team, downs Magnus Carlsen; enters Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus finals
Vincent Keymer was one of D Gukesh’s seconds at the recent World Championship, where the Indian GM beat Ding Liren to script ...
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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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Prize money for international Chess not overly extravagant
Prize funds in chess seem to have settled at US$1 million or US$2 million for a world championship match, US$500,000 for a ...
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Magnus Carlsen joins Esports Giants Team liquid amidst feud with FIDE
Magnus Carlsen joins Team Liquid for the 2025 Esports World Cup, continuing his rift with FIDE. Chess’ inclusion in esports ...
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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 ...