Oregon’s first woman grandmaster in chess is 16-year-old Zoey Tang, a junior at Westview High School in Beaverton. “Woman grandmaster” is the highest chess title restricted to women that is awarded by ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who is also D Gukesh’s former coach, criticised the ...

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

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

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

It’s been quite a journey for Magnus Carlsen, the world’s number-one chess player as of January 2025. First, he sparked controversy by wearing jeans to a tournament, which led to a heated dress code ...

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

The first day of the World Championship in the shorter versions of chess saw five rounds of rapid chess and teenagers shine ...

For the first time in World Blitz Championship history, the open section has two champions after Magnus Carlsen and Ian ...

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

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships on Friday after being confronted over a dress code violation.

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 ...