Chess is popular, with over 600 million playing it regularly in 200 countries. That has given Magnus Carlsen a lot of ...

Two of the world's top chess players faced off in a match that ended with a fist slam of defeat. At the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on June 1, reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat the ...

“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 ...

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen's celebrity status. A grand master at 13, refusing to play an American dogged by allegations of cheating, and venturing into the world ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, the world's No. 1-ranked player, suffered a major defeat on Sunday to current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju. After Dommaraju made his final move, Carlsen, ...

Erdogmus is really, really good, at almost unprecedented levels at that age. So, he’s clearly impressed me the most from the ...

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game ...

Magnus Carlsen is one of the most recognizable players in the sport of chess, but he suffered a major upset in a classical matchup against Gukesh Dommaraju on Sunday. Video from the match showed ...

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 ...

Chess titan Magnus Carlsen quit a pair of tournaments in New York Friday after the sport’s governing body told him he couldn’t wear jeans while participating in his matches. The International Chess ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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 ...