My chess coach, Grandmaster Jon Ludvig Hammer, might have played one of the best games I've seen recently. He checkmated the ...

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

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

The pinnacle of chess has weathered its fair share of controversies in recent years, including a cheating dustup, geopolitical tension, and players’ bizarre complaints about creaky floors. But ...

The player’s shock withdrawal prompted the International Chess Federation to relax a dress code that penalized him for ...

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Breaking his silence on the match-fixing controversy for the first-time, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich defended Magnus ...

It was also the eighth time that Carlsen bagged the blitz title. After seven fiercely contested games, reigning world blitz champion Magnus Carlsen made an unprecedented proposal to his opponent ...

Magnus Carlsen ... three straight draws in the sudden death. Earlier, Carlsen kicked off the final on a winning note, winning back-to-back games, implying a draw could have sealed the title ...

The chess world has been rocked by controversy after Grandmasters Magnus Carlsen ... where Carlsen initially dominated the final, winning the first two games before Nepomniachtchi fought back ...