Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen was back competing in New York in the World Blitz Championship on Monday after he quit the Rapid World Championship over the weekend because of a dispute over a ...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) on Sunday relaxed its dress code for players after world number one Magnus Carlsen was fined for wearing jeans at an event in New York. The 34-year-old ...

NEW YORK -- Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is returning to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is turning his controversial denim into some greens — for charity. The Norwegian chess grandmaster announced this week that he is auctioning off ...

Magnus Carlsen arrives at the Ninth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California. Anna Webber/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Chess grandmaster ...

Players who use computers to cheat are a growing concern in the chess world. Now the developer of Rybka, the winner of the last four World Computer Chess Championships, has been accused of ...

The Norwegian chess grandmaster was fined $200 on Friday and given a warning by the International Chess Federation (FIDE), the governing body for international chess championships, to change into ...

India’s Divya Deshmukh sparked laughs with her “No jeans!” rule-change joke, recalling Magnus Carlsen’s 2024 dress code controversy. Carlsen famously refused to change his Corneliani jeans, was fined, ...