Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle chess, previously known as Chess960 and Fischer Random. The starting ...

Freestyle Chess, created by German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner and endorsed by Magnus Carlsen, introduces excitement into chess with randomised starting positions and faster gameplay.

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

Hans Niemann will join Magnus Carlsen at the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam event.(Twitter/FIDE (Maria Emelianova/Michal Walusza)) The lawsuit came after Carlsen withdrew after losing to the ...

Reigning World Champ D Gukesh recently shared his honest take on Norwegian World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen's dominance and whether ...

In the meeting, which also included co-owner Jan Henric Buettner, the players decided to name the winner of the Grand Slam Tour as the ‘Freestyle Chess Champion’. D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen ...

Freestyle Chess, created by German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner and endorsed by Magnus Carlsen, introduces excitement ...

The freestyle chess events are a brainchild of Carlsen ... After his win in Singapore, chess great Magnus Carlsen had said that classical chess was perhaps the "worst way" to measure a player ...

The ongoing Weissenhaus Grand Slam has taken the chess world by storm, and has also had its fair share of controversies.