Going into Norway Chess 2025, Lei Tingjie is in good form. The Chinese Grandmaster recently clinched silver at the recently ...

In the men's tournament, Shahriyar Mammadyarov, having won both games against Misratdin Iskandarov, reached the final (2:0).

Freestyle chess, by randomising the starting point of the game, destroys this advantage of memory and pattern recognition; it ...

FIDE and Freestyle Chess had reached a truce before the opening event of the latter’s inaugural Grand Slam Tour got underway ...

India’s world No.4 in this interview says the Carlsen-backed format will grow in popularity in the coming years ...

Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi believes the government's recent decision to stop cash rewards for attaining GM and International ...

Arjun Erigaisi has been signed by Gen G eSports to compete for a $1.5 million prize pool at the 2025 eSports World Cup in ...

D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen are currently participating at the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

World Champion D Gukesh starts his journey in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, a new format birthed by Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, with mixed results. Despite controversies with FIDE, the ...

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

Riley Yates is the lead data reporter for NJ Advance Media, writing for NJ.com and The Star-Ledger. He has spent most of his ...

Niemann has been involved in a public feud with Carlsen since the five-time world champion accused his American opponent of ...