This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle ...

The 18-year-old reigning classical world champion didn’t win a single game in nine rounds but still managed to sneak into the ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen had predicted that after ... I had a fairly comfortable position. White had a very slight edge; but if Black is careful, which I was (it was not difficult to draw)." ...

Estonian chess enthusiast Oskar Taimla got the chance of a lifetime in facing off against five-time world champion Magnus ...

After his win in Singapore, chess great Magnus Carlsen had said that classical chess was perhaps the "worst way" to measure a player, adding that rapid chess was perhaps a more "pure" form of chess.