Gukesh and the Freestyle chess conundrum
The world champion went winless at a recent event, in a format he looked out of depth. Trainer Gajewski says they’re debating ...
Chess and the dispute over 'freestyle'
A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with ...
Freestyle Chess Tour LIVE Score: Keymer crowned Weissenhaus champion; Gukesh signs off without a win
Vincent Keymer, completes a fairytale triumph in Weissenhaus after beating Fabiano Caruana 1.5-0.5 in the final. D Gukesh, on ...
Why Gukesh’s winless run at Weissenhaus in Freestyle Chess is nothing to worry about
Freestyle chess demands that Gukesh fights the habit of calculation and preparation, something he has aced while becoming ...
Two lessons that D Gukesh will have learned from winless Freestyle Chess Tour campaign in Weissenhaus
Two months after being crowned the youngest world champion in chess history, D Gukesh failed to win a single game in the ...
Why freestyle chess is tougher for older players even though players don’t spend hours training before games
The last few days have been rough on Nakamura who won the Fisher Random World Championship in 2022, when FIDE organised the ...
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Gukesh loses quarterfinal against Caruana in Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus
World champion Dommaraju Gukesh saw his bid to win the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Weissenhaus, Germany come to an end with ...
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Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess. Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told ...
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Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, Weissenhaus 2025: Gukesh loses again to Caruana in second-leg of quarterfinal, to play 5th-8th place playoff
Classical World Champion, India’s D. Gukesh lost the second leg of the quarterfinal match against USA’s Fabiano Caruana in ...
D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi’s participation confirmed for Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam event
Arjun’s participation has already been confirmed by an official social media post from Freestyle Chess.
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Gukesh loses quarterfinal against Caruana in Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus
World champion Dommaraju Gukesh saw his bid to win the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Weissenhaus, Germany come to an end with a quarterfinal loss to Fabiano Caruna. Having lost game 1 of the ...
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Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Ten of the world’s top players gathered in a German villa on the Baltic coast this week to play in the first tournament of a new chess circuit, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, that Carlsen ...