In a sensational move, Freestyle Chess failed to receive official recognition for a world championship tournament from FIDE, which sent social media into a state of meltdown. What followed was an ...

FIDE had already organised a Fischer-Random World Championship in 2019 (Wesley So beat Carlsen in the final) and 2022 (Hikaru Nakamura beat Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final), and as chess ...

T he Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour begins on February 7 at the Weissenhaus Resort in Wangels (Germany), and organisers will ...

The first week of February saw the chess world caught up in controversy as the Freestyle Chess Players Club failed to reach ...

on Tuesday officially ended their feud with the Freestyle Chess Tour. The development comes after FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky confirmed that the term “World Championship” would be removed from the Tour ...

D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa had finished as the top two players in the Masters section of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament with 8.50 points ... which he had earned from his FIDE World Championship ...

Dommaraju Gukesh, reigning world champion and five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen are all set to feature in the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour, beginning on February 7th in Weissenhaus, Germany. This ...

A day after talks broke down between FIDE ... over-the-board chess, including the time controls that we are discussing. There is a clear trend towards reducing time control, there is a lot of ...

Magnus Carlsen has made it clear that he won’t be playing in the FIDE events anymore and will be focus more on his project Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. After spending the past two months battling ...