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Freestyle Chess heading to Las Vegas instead of New York with new changes to format to speed up event
Next event will see 45-minute games with a 10-second increment per move rather than a 90-minute game with 30-second increment ...
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'I Prefer Playing Against Human Beings'
World Chess Champion D Gukesh and World Junior Chess Champion Pranav Venkatesh are from the same school and were classmates ...
Arjun Erigaisi explains what makes him click in Freestyle Chess: 'I spent quite some time on it'
Arjun Erigaisi is the only Indian Grandmaster to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Paris ...
Gukesh out! World champion falls in Paris Freestyle Chess prelims
The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam preliminary stage wrapped up in Paris. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Magnus Carlsen led with 8.5 ...
The mystery of Hans Niemann and his last-minute withdrawal from Freestyle Chess Paris tour
On April 1, 2025, American grandmaster Hans Niemann posted about his potential arrival in Paris for the second leg of the ...
Gukesh's positive attitude lauded as world champion returns to Freestyle Chess Tour: 'He just accepted bad results'
Chess world champion D Gukesh endured a poor outing in the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025, finishing the tournament winless. However, this hasn’t dampened his appetite to ...
'Gukesh accepted he didn't do well': World champion returns for Paris leg of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour
D Gukesh, the world chess champion, struggled in the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour's opening leg but remains ...