This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat between Carlsen and the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE ...

Saying that it is "not too difficult to make an exceptional event for 10 people", FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky invoked the ...

The 12 members of the Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) have decided against using term ‘world champion for the winner of ...

T he ongoing FIDE vs Freestyle Chess controversy has created much furore lately. The first week of February saw FIDE release ...

D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen are currently participating at the first leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour boss Jan Henric Buettner and all-time great Magnus Carlsen have called on International Chess ...

Players have also decide that the 2025 Grand Slam Tour winner in December (South Africa) will be titled “Freestyle Chess ...

With D Gukesh’s underwhelming campaign in Weissenhaus coming to an end with back-to-back losses in the quarter-finals, the spotlight now shifts to his conquerer Fabiano Caruana and world No 1 Magnus ...

Further talks with Fide futile, says Freestyle Chess promoter Jan Buettner; Fide says Freestyle Chess refused to acknowledge ...

Buettner and 12 Freestyle Chess Players Club members decided that the 2025 Grand Slam Tour winner will be called “Freestyle Chess Champion” ...

The term ‘Freestyle Chess’ was born because Jan Henric Buettner felt that Fischer Random 960, the original version, sounded ...

So does the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour not have FIDE's blessing? Both parties have pushed their issues aside for the moment, but there's a lot to cover... There's been a long spat between the ...