A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with millions on the line.

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signaling ...

World champion D Gukesh bowed out of Freestyle Grand Slam chess after losing his second straight quarterfinal game against ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

The five-tournament series will unfold through the year, with Paris, New York, New Delhi and Cape Town being the other four ...

His Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour has relented against FIDE for now, but the bitterness between both camps is palpable ...

The term ‘Freestyle Chess’ was born because Jan Henric Buettner felt that Fischer Random 960, the original version, sounded ...

Having lost the first game with white pieces, Gukesh did not last long against the American Grandmaster in a must-win tie ...

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

The first major difference between freestyle chess and chess as we know is that the pieces on the back ranks are randomised.

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour boss Jan Henric Buettner and all-time great Magnus Carlsen have called on International Chess ...

PARIS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE ... Chess960, created by former world champion Bobby Fischer in 1996, has been gaining in popularity ...