Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1 ranked chess player, quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York on Friday after refusing to change out of jeans to conform to a strict dress code.

Chess titan Magnus Carlsen quit a pair of tournaments in New York Friday after the sport’s governing body told him he couldn’t wear jeans while participating in his matches.

With a whisper of glacial snowflakes falling outside Holmenkollen Chapel in Oslo, Magnus Carlsen swapped grandmasterly checkmates for heartfelt vows in a scene more cinematic than any Netflix drama.

Magnus Carlsen at Day 2 of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship on December 27, 2024, in New York City. (Misha Friedman/Getty Images) "It’s okay, they can enforce their rules," he ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, Magnus Carlsen, the best chess player in the world, showed up at the World Rapid Championships, on Wall Street, in New York, wearing a blazer, dress shoes, and jeans ...

T he top-ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on Friday due to a dispute over the dress code. Carlsen refused to change ...

Magnus Carlsen settled a bizarre feud with chess’s international governing body by returning to a major tournament in New York City days after a dispute with officials led him to withdraw abruptly.

The wedding came just days after Magnus Carlsen set the chess world into furore while defending his World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on 27 December. The Grandmaster quit the ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz Championship title earlier this week.. Tuesday’s final in New York was ...

Last year, he garnered headlines for quitting a tournament in New York after refusing to change out of the jeans he wore to the competition. He later accepted a $200 fine and officials agreed to ...

Magnus Carlsen hated homework and blossomed when he no longer had to go to school. ... Buettner and Carlsen found a new name for Chess960, ... at the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York.

BERLIN (AP) — Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140,000 people worldwide in a mega-match that could overturn expectations by ending in a draw in the ...