World chess champion Magnus Carlsen was recently disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Championships for wearing jeans, ...

The top-ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on Friday due to a dispute over the dress code. Carlsen refused to change ...

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body ...

Carlsen is a friend of Jan Henric Buettner, a Hamburg-born entrepreneur whose Weissenhaus Chess Academy sponsors the St.Pauli ...

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen was back competing in New York in the World Blitz Championship on Monday after he quit the Rapid World Championship over the weekend because of a dispute ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won’t defend his title at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships because of a pair of jeans. Carlsen, the current ...

Chess great Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on Friday after governing body FIDE barred the Norwegian from participating in a round at the tournament ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...