Magnus Carlsen was made to sweat hard in the World Chess Championship matches of 2016 and 2018. His second during those ...

Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1 ranked chess player in the world, went viral on Sunday for the way he handled a shocking loss at the 2025 Norway Chess tournament. Defending world champion Gukesh Dommaraju ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years and the ...

Though Carlsen agreed to the request for a selfie, he immediately informed one of the tournament judges about Nurman’s ...

Dec. 28 (UPI) --Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, says he has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York after refusing to change out of his jeans as requested by officials.

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers. On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers.On Friday, Carlsen walked ...

Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat. At the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on June 1, reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat the ...

Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson shares insights on Magnus Carlsen, D. Gukesh, Vincent Keymer, and the 2026 Candidates tournament, ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won’t defend his title at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships because of a pair of jeans. Carlsen, the current World No ...