World chess champion Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 because he refused to ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No1 chess player, has triggered a major backlash after cutting short a final to share a world ...

Carlsen and Nepo agreed to a draw after three straight draws in tiebreakers; while Ju beat compatriot Lei Tingjie.

World chess number one Magnus Carlsen announced his return to play in this year’s final World Blitz Championship after the ...

FIDE, chess’s main governing body, stipulates a certain level of decorum; an arbiter informed Carlsen that, in order to be eligible to play in the tournament, he’d have to return to his hotel ...

The latest FIDE rankings for 2025 see Arjun Erigaisi hold the fourth spot, with D Gukesh securing fifth as the new Classical ...

After disqualification in the Rapid event, world number one Magnus Carlsen had opted out of the Blitz championship but he ...

First Sports With Rupha Ramani The FIDE V Carlsen battle has taken an ugly route. Carlsen's trainer and Viswanathan Anand's former coach Peter Heine Nielsen, has attacked FIDE and Russia. The Danish ...

The 34-year-old has been vocal against FIDE, accusing the world body of threating players not to participate in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, started by Germany's Jan Henric Buettner.