The New Yorker13d
What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have to Do with Chess
The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.
Chinese chess cheating scandal: Top grandmasters banned, triggered by life-time ban of ‘China’s Magnus Carlsen’
The public got to know about the cheating scandal in September when the CXA issued its life-time bans on Wang Yuefei and Wang ...
Why superstar Magnus Carlsen is playing chess for St. Pauli
Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...
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Viswanathan Anand shuts down Magnus Carlsen for criticising Gukesh’s World Chess Championship win
In the decisive Game 14 round of the FIDE World Chess ... After his win in Singapore, chess great Magnus Carlsen had said that classical chess was perhaps the "worst way" to measure a player ...
Hindustan Times10d
Whose game is it anyway? The Carlsen vs Fide battle
five world Rapid titles and eight world Blitz titles and was peerless in his domination of the game? Kolkata: Five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway plays against Indian ...
Magnus Carlsen wore jeans to a chess tournament. Controversy followed.
The player’s shock withdrawal prompted the International Chess Federation to relax a dress code that penalized him for ...
Magnus Carlsen’s match-fixing video downplayed by FIDE president in blunt remark: ‘As for sharing the Blitz title…’
Breaking his silence on the match-fixing controversy for the first-time, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich defended Magnus ...
Tatler9d
King of chess Magnus Carlsen ties the knot after a scandal in New York
Magnus Carlsen, considered by many to be the greatest chess player the world has ever seen, is celebrating his endgame. After spending a decade as world champion between 2013 and 2023, the 34-year-old ...
Magnus Carlsen returns to chess tournament after dispute over jeans is resolved
Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body ...
D Gukesh set to make comeback in Wimbledon of chess, looks to replicate Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen’s success
Ian Nepomniachtchi breaks silence after Magnus Carlsen chess match-fixing scandal: ‘I solved problems myself…’ After the ...
Hindustan Times5d
‘Challenged Arjun Erigaisi for 100k…’: American GM, known for Carlsen cheating scandal, reveals bombshell offer
India's chess grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi gestures during a game.(AFP ... matter and Niemann filed a lawsuit against Carlsen, his company Play Magnus Group, Hikaru Nakamura and Chess.com chief ...