FIDE has relaxed its dress code rule after the Magnus Carlsen jeans controversy at the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships on Friday after being confronted over a dress code violation.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen left the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Friday, Dec. 27 after he refused to change out of his jeans in accordance with the International Chess ...

The tournament is open to the public. Last season, Hawaii won the US Team Chess League Division 1 title over Iowa.

The rapid growth of chess is leading to the proliferation of new formats, which is in turn creating a crowded year-long calendar.

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers.

Wesley So later revealed that he had suggested -- only half-seriously -- that the three players slit the title, just like Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi had controversially done at the 2024 ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen played his first match at the World Blitz Championship after initially quitting the chess tournament due to a dress code dispute with organizers.

An eight-year-old British schoolgirl “phenomenon” won the women’s first prize in the Blitz category at this year’s European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in Zagreb, Croatia.