Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...

At just nine years old, Rayan Rashid Mugdho, a young chess prodigy from Dhaka, has achieved what many seasoned players can only dream of—defeating five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen. This ...

He managed to achieve what many professional players can only dream of—defeating one of the greatest chess players of all time.

FIDE has urged the Freestyle series to refrain from using the "World Championship" designation. The federation has made it ...

for his chess matches. Turning up in casual attire is a first for Gukesh, and it could be an indirect dig at FIDE’s recent treatment of world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen. At the year-ending World Rapid ...

The Rapid competition was shrouded by Magnus Carlsen’s jeans ... In December, he lost to Carlsen in the final of the Champions Chess tour. Meanwhile in September, he won the Gashimov Memorial.

Sushila Meena, an underprivileged 12-year-old tribal girl from Rajasthan, recently made headlines when Master Blaster Sachin ...

(File)(PTI) Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi on Tuesday won the early Titled Tuesday weekly blitz competition conducted by Chess.com, reported First Post, beating the World No 1 Magnus Carlsen ...

Indians continue to make waves in world chess. After a fabulous 2024 for ... Among the participants were World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, No. 2 Fabiano Caruana and No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura.

On a recent Friday afternoon, Magnus Carlsen, the best chess player in the world, showed up at the World Rapid Championships, on Wall Street, in New York, wearing a blazer, dress shoes ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won’t defend his title at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships because of a pair of jeans. Carlsen, the current ...