NEW DELHI: The knockout stage of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Paris commenced on Wednesday with the quarterfinal matches. The top eight players from the preliminary phase are now engaged in ...

It was a real-life Cinderella story, but the glass slipper got upstaged by a pair of blue jeans. Russian teenage GM Volodar Murzin, seeded 59th in a world-class field, is the new FIDE rapid world ...

NEW DELHI – In a dramatic turnaround at the Norway Chess 2025 tournament, India’s teenage World Champion D Gukesh stunned the chess world by defeating former world number one Magnus Carlsen in Round 6 ...

Magnus Carlsen, the number one-ranked chess player in the world, banged the table in an outburst after losing a match to Gukesh Dommaraju. The video went viral on social media. It shows Carlsen ...

"Part of me, honestly, when I had that loss, recently just felt it was so dumb and so unnecessary, and it made me feel so kind of washed and useless," he said on the podcast. "My thoughts for a few ...

Magnus Carlsen and wife Ella Victoria welcomed their first child on September 27, sharing the joyous news with a heartwarming ...

BERLIN (AP) — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus ...