First Sports With Rupha Ramani The chess world has been hit by a massive "Jeangate" controversy. Magnus Carlsen has added fuel to an already burning issue. The world number 1 returned to the World ...

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 because he refused to ...

The chess world is never short on scandals, and the latest one is incredibly on brand. Top-ranked former world champion ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No1 chess player, has triggered a major backlash after cutting short a final to share a world ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess ...

First Sports With Rupha Ramani The FIDE V Carlsen battle has taken an ugly route. Carlsen's trainer and Viswanathan Anand's former coach Peter Heine Nielsen, has attacked FIDE and Russia. The Danish ...

Carlsen and Nepo agreed to a draw after three straight draws in tiebreakers; while Ju beat compatriot Lei Tingjie.

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

World chess number one Magnus Carlsen announced his return to play in this year’s final World Blitz Championship after the ...

The latest FIDE rankings for 2025 see Arjun Erigaisi hold the fourth spot, with D Gukesh securing fifth as the new Classical ...

In a span of six days, a pair of jeans and an unprecedented shared world title laid bare the already simmering rift between ...

FIDE, chess’s main governing body, stipulates a certain level of decorum; an arbiter informed Carlsen that, in order to be eligible to play in the tournament, he’d have to return to his hotel ...