Fide has warned the Freestyle Chess Players Club - co-owned by Carlsen - not to call its new series a “World Championship”.

The FIDE statement also puts in a quandary the participation of India's D Gukesh and Viswanathan Anand in the high-profile ...

The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE) and Magnus Carlsen escalated when the governing body ...

Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen was first fined and then disqualified ... This was an idea propagated by the great Bobby Fischer. "This is a war with FIDE (the game's apex body)," said ...

Magnus Carlsen’s walkout from the World Rapid ... the governing body of chess. Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic genius, famously clashed with FIDE in the 1970s, and Garry Kasparov took a bold ...

The Tata Steel Chess, which will be Gukesh Dommaraju’s first event since being crowned world champion in Singapore, gets ...

Anand is one of his favourite World champions. “Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen are the others,” he said. “And my favourite World championship match is the one between Bobby Fischer and ...

To explain just how much of the collective is needed to win here, consider this fact -- Bobby Fischer only ever won two Olympiad silvers. Magnus Carlsen has yet to win an Olympiad medal of any colour.

Former world champion Magnus Carlsen, who remains No. 1 in ... chess variant that was invented by the legendary US champion Bobby Fischer: In "Fischer Random," the starting position is drawn ...