BERLIN (AP) — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus ...

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has denied allegations of match-fixing after a backstage video from the World Blitz Championship 2024 final surfaced, showing him and Ian Nepomniachtchi discussing the ...

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time, is no stranger to making headlines—but his latest controversy has nothing to do with his gameplay. The chess ...

CHESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

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 ...