Magnus Carlsen recently faced a unique challenge, battling over 143,000 chess enthusiasts worldwide in a freestyle game hosted online. This marked the first time a reigning or former world ...

A chess grandmaster who is playing a single game against 140,000 people thinks the match is heading for a draw. The mega-match features undisputed world number one Norwegian Magnus Carlsen playing ...

Cheng — the former head of product, growth, and monetization at Grammarly and Duolingo — added that he seems to hear of a new “high-profile” chess player every day and cited the recent ...

Magnus Carlsen is betting that his Freestyle Chess tournament can lure new fans to the game, while engaging the hardcore enthusiasts. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Earlier this month, a handful of ...

Pranav Venkatesh, the World Junior Chess Champion, has his sights set on becoming the World Chess Champion. The 18-year-old from Chennai balances chess with academics and enjoys cricket.

a Netflix series about a fictional chess prodigy's quest to become the greatest chess player in the world, while struggling with addiction. Rensch said that Chess.com passed one million members in ...

Proceedings of the Odisha Legislative Assembly were disrupted ... in educational institute,” senior BJD leader Arun Sahoo said while speaking outside the Assembly on Monday.

For analysts, this delicate balancing act underlines how Kagame has become the quintessential "chess-player" of African politics. "He is the master of politico-military affairs," said a Western ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play ...

America's youngest chess Grandmaster ever, four-time US Open Champion, and the current number 2 player in the world according to Chess.com, Fabiano Caruana, has been signed by Team Liquid ahead of ...

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Getty Images But the global No. 1 chess player refused to change even after the chief arbiter had requested he do so and fined him $200. Carlsen, 34, subsequently was not paired for round nine of ...