Meanwhile, reigning world chess champion D Gukesh recently received the prestigious Khel Ratna Award. Speaking during a function organised by AICF, Gukesh spoke on the possibility of actually having ...

New chess world champion D Gukesh is set to begin his 2025 campaign at the prestigious Tata Steel Chess tournament in Netherlands. The event, featuring a 14-player round-robin format, promises intense ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a strong pitch to host the 2036 Olympics in India and Gukesh said it would be a dream ...

Breaking his silence on the match-fixing controversy for the first-time, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich defended Magnus ...

Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESSWIRE / January 9, 2025 / Freedom Holding Corp. is proud to have sponsored the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship.

The World Blitz Championship Tournament concluded last week in New York shortly before the ball fell in Times Square. After a ...

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

Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen married his long-term girlfriend Ella Victoria Malone in a beautiful ceremony with Netflix crew ...

Carlsen's long-time trainer and Vishwanathan Anand's former coach Peter Heine Nielsen has accused FIDE of being controlled by ...

During the World Rapid Chess Championship a few days earlier Carlsen had withdrawn from the Rapid and upcoming Blitz Tournaments. It was ostensibly about the tournament rules not allowing jeans ...

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.