The 34-year-old has been vocal against FIDE, accusing the world body of threating players not to participate in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, started by Germany's Jan Henric Buettner.

The latest FIDE rankings for 2025 see Arjun Erigaisi ... Viswanathan Anand, another Indian chess legend, is ranked 10th. His ELO rating is currently 2750. India's strong presence in the top ...

Magnus Carlsen, five-time world chess champion, withdrew from the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championship after a dispute over his attire. Highlighting dissatisfaction with FIDE, Carlsen's actions ...

World number one Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Blitz Chess Championship in New York following FIDE's decision to allow players to compete in jeans, a couple of days after disqualifying ...

according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE).Carlsen, who has won five world rapid and seven world blitz titles in the last 10 years, also withdrew from the World Blitz Championship ...

"FIDE remains committed to promoting chess and its values, including respect for the rules that all participants agree to follow," the world chess body concluded. Carlsen told Take Take Take that ...

FIDE, chess’s main governing body, stipulates a certain level of decorum; an arbiter informed Carlsen that, in order to be eligible to play in the tournament, he’d have to return to his hotel ...

The contrasting responses of the two players have sparked a debate within the chess community over the enforcement of FIDE’s dress code. Magnus Carlsen expressed frustration over the incident ...

which the International Chess Federation (FIDE) said breached the tournament’s dress code. As a result, Carlsen quit and said he would not return for the Blitz competition which starts on Monday ...

For the first time in World Blitz Championship history, the open section has two champions after Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to a draw after tiebreakers in the final with the ...