Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...
Chess GM Hikaru Joins Team Falcons for Esports World Cup
Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is the latest in a wave of chess player signings before the 2025 Esports World Cup.
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Chess legend Magnus Carlsen puts ‘forbidden jeans’ up for auction
The International Chess Federation fined Carlsen USD 200 and then banned him from taking part in a round nine at the World ...
Magnus Carlsen puts 'forbidden jeans' from Jeansgate scandal up for auction; price reaches $8,000
Magnus Carlsen is auctioning the “forbidden jeans” that led to the infamous ‘jeansgate’ scandal at the 2024 World Rapid and ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
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Chess legend Carlsen puts 'forbidden jeans' up for auction
Oslo: Norwegian chess legend Magnus Carlsen has put the jeans that got him disqualified from a chess championship in New York up for sale in an ...
'I woke my poor wife and said...' Magnus Carlsen's trainer Peter Heine Nielsen recalls infamous 'jeansgate' scandal
Magnus Carlsen’s infamous ‘jeansgate’ scandal at the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships in New York led to his ...
In four years, how Viswanathan Anand's WACA shaped D Gukesh into the youngest World Chess Champion
Viswanathan Anand had only hoped that his ward would play the World Chess Championship one day, winning it by setting a new ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between ...
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Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
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, he told ...