Yet the most compelling aspect of the grand slam isn’t the venue or even the participants. It’s the format. We will be playing Freestyle Chess ... The challenge wasn’t the games, which ...

On Tuesday, the World chess body said it was “ready to challenge organizers and initiators ... India and South Africa. Freestyle Chess had announced New Delhi as the venue for its India leg to be held ...

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

T he Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour begins on February 7 at the Weissenhaus Resort in Wangels (Germany), and organisers will ...

After he walked away from the classical Fide World Championship cycle in 2022, Carlsen has been a promoter of Freestyle Chess (chess960), backed by German entrepreneur Jan Buettner. Magnus Carlsen ...

PARIS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE) and Magnus Carlsen escalated when the governing body hit out at the Freestyle Chess Players Club ...

The much-anticipated match between world champion Viswanathan Anand and his protege D Gukesh at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour has been cancelled as Anand withdrew unexpectedly. This decision ...

not an attempt to challenge Fide’s traditional World Championship cycle,” Buettner wrote in his open letter addressed to Fide CEO Emil Sutovsky. The Freestyle Grand Slam Chess Tour is ...

Viswanathan Anand has pulled out from the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. His new role as FIDE Vice President and tensions with Magnus Carlsen influenced his decision. The tour starts in Germany ...

and Magnus Carlsen-feud has escalated further when the world chess governing body hit out at the Freestyle Chess Players Club, which is co-owned by the Norwegian Chess GM, threatening legal action ...

From expanding freestyle chess to social initiatives, the discipline is undergoing a global transformation. In an extensive interview last week with ChessBase India, Dvorkovich, president of the ...