Bengaluru: The deadlock between Fide and promoters of Freestyle Chess (Fischer Random) continues with negotiations failing and no resolution in sight. In an open letter to Fide on Monday Freestyle ...

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 the ...

Following a $20 million fundraise, the inaugural U.S. tournament will also introduce a live audience along with "Chesstival" - featuring prominent NBA stars LAS VEGAS, June 03, 2025--(BUSINESS ...

PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) - Finding chess boring? Try shuffling your pieces on the back rank and you get Chess960, or Freestyle chess, a variant of the game that favours creativity over preparation, ...

World champion Dommaraju Gukesh saw his bid to win the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Weissenhaus, Germany come to an end with a quarterfinal loss to Fabiano Caruna. Having lost game 1 of the ...

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and Freestyle Chess are expanding their partnership, with DAZN delivering global broadcast coverage (excluding Norway) of the FIDE Freestyle Chess World ...

Bengaluru: Freestyle Chess has been a simmering issue between the world chess governing body, Fide, and the game’s most successful player, Magnus Carlsen, for a while now. After he walked away from ...

Reigning world champion Dommaraju Gukesh didn't have the best of days to open the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour in Weissenhauss, Germany, as he went through the opening day without a single win. Gukesh ...

India’s teenage chess sensation, Gukesh Dommaraju, endured a tough outing in the opening event of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Weissenhaus, Germany. The 18-year-old, who made history in ...

“Freestyle chess” is a new name for the variant where the back rank pieces are placed randomly, so as to make the game a test of skill and imagination rather than memory of book openings. It was ...