On the eve of the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships, top-ranked Magnus Carlsen and world classical chess champion ...

Magnus Carlsen has continued to remain the undisputed king of chess for another year and will be firm favourite in the season ...

Magnus Carlsen has been the biggest face of modern chess for more than a decade. In 2025, his money story gained more ...

World No. 1 and five-time World Champion Magnus Carlsen has named Americans Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana as favourites ...

Carlsen also explained that besides the two Americans, Nakamura and Caruana, and Pragg, he doesn't think anyone has a real chance of winning the Candidates.

Magnus Carlsen spoke about fatherhood, rival D. Dukesh, AI in chess ahead of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship.

Fit check mate. Chess titan Magnus Carlsen quit a pair of tournaments in New York Friday after the sport’s governing body ...

The chess cheating scandal brewing since September just reignited. Hans Niemann, the 19-year-old chess grandmaster, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, and others, for $100 million in damages. The ...

Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen has remained on top of the FIDE ratings continuously since 2011, a year after rising ...

The defamation lawsuit claims that Chess.com, a popular online platform where players compete in tournaments, colluded with Carlsen and Play Magnus to ban Niemann from the website and future events to ...

Nicole Clark (she/her) is a culture editor at Polygon, and a critic covering internet culture, video games, books, and TV, with work in the NY Times, Vice, and Catapult. The chess cheating scandal ...