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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freestyle Chess ...

Under the bright lights of Wynn Las Vegas’ Lafite Ballroom, eight grandmasters squared off Friday in a first-of-its-kind tournament shaking up the chess world. The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is ...

PARIS, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Another world chess title will be up for grabs next month after the launch of the first official FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, expanding the sport’s growing elite ...

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, ...

Derrick Rose wants to make the game of chess more appealing to the general public. Derrick Rose is putting his love for chess on full display, hoping to inspire more people to value the game the way ...

Magnus Carlsen recently won the first official FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship in Germany, defeating Fabiano Caruana 2.5-1.5 in the final to claim his 21st world title.

NEW DELHI: In his column for The Economist last January, Magnus Carlsen, a five-time World Chess champion and the current World No. 1, penned, "As the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour begins, I look ...

After learning a card trick just one day earlier from David at Freestyle Chess Las Vegas, I decided to perform it for the very first time. I was nervous, double-checking the deck, asking for closed ...

BERLIN — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus Carlsen ...

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 of Norway won the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship on Sunday, defeating American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana in .