Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World Chess Championship. Carlsen, a five-time world champion, last won the title in ...

There are clear similarities to football,’ with his fellow Norwegian – and world chess No 1 Magnus Carlsen – likely to play ...

Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. ChatGPT resigned the match. “I ...

The world No 1 won his 21st global title by defeating his old rival Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle chess at Weissenhaus in Germany ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, made a cameo appearance via video in last Monday’s third episode of BBC2’s Chess Masters: The Endgame, challenging contestants to memorise a position from a “special” ...

Argentina’s Faustino Oro and Turkey’s Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, both in their early teens, are taking the chess world by storm and ...

NEW DELHI: World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen was involved in another dramatic incident at the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025 in Doha, where he lost his Round 14 game by forfeit after knocking over ...

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has chosen denim over chess. The world chess number one player, who earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13, walked away from a tournament after being asked to change ...

“Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn’t want to. I stand by that," Carlsen said Dipayan Bose/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Chess champion Magnus Carlsen pulled off a sartorial ...

Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140,000 people worldwide in a mega-match that could overturn expectations by ending in a draw in the next few days.