This December, Magnus Carlsen won both the World Chess Championship in Rapid and Blitz time controls. Rapid is a game played ...

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

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Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, won the World Blitz Championship in December 2025 ...

Magnus Carlsen can't stop slamming the table after intense defeats, and this was another slam heard around the chess world.

Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the world's number one chess player, on Tuesday won the World Blitz Championship in Doha, days after ...

The Norwegian beat Uzbek grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2.5-1.5 in the final in Doha to secure his fifth rapid and blitz ...

Magnus Carlsen and D. Gukesh discuss generational shifts and the impact of artificial intelligence in chess ahead of the FIDE ...

The grandmaster's final moves are preserved in heartbreaking footage. It is distressing, raw and long, and depicts the ...

Magnus Carlsen, left, makes a move against Fabiano Caruana, at the Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown at the St. Louis Chess Club. Carlsen won the tournament, which ended Oct 29, 2025. ST. LOUIS — Four ...

"I had my earphones on," Carlsen said, smiling, in a video interview with Newsweek Sports this week, "but from what I've heard from others, it was definitely a good atmosphere." Here's what did ...

Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. Inevitably, however, we are talking about jeans. “A lot of people want to see some kind of conspiracy behind things,” he ...