Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour sponsor Jan Henric Buettner has revealed he didn’t seek Magnus Carlsen’s approval before ...

Indian elections' 'resort politics' is paralleled in chess with the introduction of freestyle chess by Magnus Carlsen, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam began at Weissenhaus ... while Javokhir Sindarov shined, defeating Magnus Carlsen and securing 4.5/5 points. Fabiano Caruana also advanced, and Carlsen's ...

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 ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player ... week to play in the first tournament of a new chess circuit, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, that Carlsen co-founded.

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 ...