India may lose the opportunity to host the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour due to a lack of investor support. Organizers are ...

In an open letter to FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky, German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner has also questioned the chess governing ...

Ghanaian musician Stonebwoy has been featured on the prestigious reggae and dancehall sound system, Little Loion Sound which ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

Legendary Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand has withdrawn from the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour amid the ongoing dispute between Magnus Carlsen and FIDE. Anand’s decision comes as tensions rise ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

Viswanathan Anand’s absence means that fans will not get a chance to witness the much-awaited match between the Indian legend ...

The organisers of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour had named Anand as one of the 10 players in the field at the ...

Magnus Carlsen criticised FIDE after co-founding Freestyle Chess Players Club with Jan Henric Beuttner, which led to a ...

Henric Buettner wrote: "FIDE's recent actions, such as threatening players with sanctions and demanding they sign agreements ...

Calling the collaboration between Freestyle Chess and Fide “increasingly strained”, Buettner claimed that Fide president Arkady Dvorkovich’s invitation to Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana to play a ...

FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social media post.