Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play ...

German GM Martin Keymer was Freestyling in style, successively defeating the world’s two highest-rated players to capture the ...

What you need to know about the 2025 Illinois High School Association chess state finals in Peoria, Illinois. Top teams and ...

But as Nakamura pointed out, this is not just age catching up with him, it’s also because of the format of freestyle chess, where you cannot afford to have your mind on auto pilot in the opening ...

Chinese esports organisation LGD Gaming has announced the signing of Ding Liren, marking his return to chess in 2025. The 17th World Chess champion is the latest chess player to join an esports team, ...

Grandmaster, four-time US Open Champion, perennial Candidate, and third highest rated player of all time. However, the biggest bombshell for chess at the Esports World Cup yet arrived via a Tweet ...

D Gukesh fights back from the brink of a defeat to hold Alireza Firouzja to a 91-move draw in Game 1 of the seventh-place ...

When he watched his first chess event online shortly after that conversation, Buettner’s unfiltered thought about it was: “incredibly boring to watch two people play chess.” A couple of years — and ...

Nevertheless, my opponent was a Grandmaster and his draw offer despite the time advantage on his clock made me wonder whether ...

FIDE and Freestyle Chess had reached a truce before the opening event of the latter’s inaugural Grand Slam Tour got underway in Weissenhaus, Germany. That, however, did not stop world No 1 Magnus ...

“The names of Karpov, the names of (Mikhail) Tal, (Tigran) Petrosian and others were known by everybody, even the people who never played chess.” The dominance enjoyed by Soviet players during ...