Freestyle chess is now popular because of the abundance of knowledge about the standard starting position. It randomizes the opening and side-steps memorization by shuffling the pieces on the back ...

Freestyle chess demands that Gukesh fights the habit of calculation and preparation, something he has aced while becoming ...

What is white’s best move? The lesson this week is that chess is often about finding the right angles. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

Vincent Keymer achieved a career-best result last week when the 20-year-old German defeated the world No 1 Magnus Carlsen in ...

Arjun’s participation has already been confirmed by an official social media post from Freestyle Chess.

The meeting between the Botez sisters and world champion D Gukesh took place in Hamburg, Germany, where the latter was ...

Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...

Chess rebel Magnus Carlsen’s feud with FIDE reaches boiling point. A chess GM reveals why the World No. 1 is ‘bigger than the ...

Reigning world champion D Gukesh finished at the bottom after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the ...

Carlsen competed in the inaugural Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour opener in Weissenhaus, Germany, finishing third after a ...

D. Gukesh ended in eighth position after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game of their ...