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Magnus Carlsen did not look happy. As he sat on an elevated stage for a press conference right before the start of the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship on Friday, flanked on one side by German ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov ...

On a dramatic day in the seaside German town of Weissenhaus, Magnus Carlsen won the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship—his 21st World Championship title—after defeating Fabiano Caruana in a ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Norway's Magnus Carlsen added another crown to his collection on Sunday by becoming the first official FIDE Freestyle Chess world champion after a comeback win over Fabiano Caruana ...

Only Magnus Carlsen is ranked above Hikaru Nakamura Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images Hikaru Nakamura did not wait around. After nearly five hours of moving chess pieces rapidly, he ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: If you loved The Queen’s Gambit, then you are definitely going to want to watch The Queen of Chess on Netflix, a new documentary that began streaming today that profiles ...

Among elite chess grandmasters, more than 70% of competitions end in ties. And that is just conventional "over the board" chess; in the growing realm of online competition known as "correspondence ...