World Chess champion Magnus Carlsen will no longer compete in the World Rapid or Blitz Chess Championships after violating the International Chess Federation’s dress code policy. Carlsen, who was set ...

Approximately 300 elite chess players from around the world have registered for the upcoming world tournament in New York City. This six-day event will showcase elite chess players from every ...

Magnus Carlsen at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships on Dec. 27, 2024 World chess champion Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships after refusing to ditch ...

An Iranian chess player has become the latest sportswoman from the Islamic Republic to participate in an international competition without the country’s mandatory headscarf. Iranian news outlets ...

Ju Wenjun, the newly crowned Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, believes the growing success of Chinese players on the ...

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 ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is at the World Blitz Championship — a competition he has won seven times previously — after going head-to-head with organizers over his refusal to change out of jeans ...

An eight-year-old British schoolgirl “phenomenon” won the women’s first prize in the Blitz category at this year’s European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia. The “super talented” ...

MU Chess Team champion and Grandmaster Grigory Oparin lost his final game at the Sept. 26 U.S. Online Collegiate Rapid and Blitz Championship, but he still walked away the first-place winner. “I got a ...