Top players like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura said that FIDE threatened grandmasters who wanted to take part in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour ...

The chess world is about to converge ... Popularized by the American champion Bobby Fischer, the 960 possible starting positions mean that every game poses a fresh set of problems that require ...

The 1984-85 World Chess Championship between defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov was abandoned ...

D Gukesh was off to an underwhelming start in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, failing to win a single game in the ...

This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE ...

Having lost the first game with white pieces, World champion D Gukesh did not last long against the American Grandmaster in a ...

World champion D Gukesh has ended his Freestyle Chess Grand Slam campaign without a single win. His final match ended in defeat against Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game ...

D Gukesh did not last long against Fabiano Caruana in a must-win tie with the American winning in a mere 18 moves.

Carlsen and Gukesh will face-off in round nine of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour at Weissenhaus in Germany on Saturday.