FIDE's dispute with Freestyle Chess centers around using the term "World Championship." Freestyle Chess, co-founded by Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, introduced an innovative format with a Grand ...

FIDE wants to ensure that all players can plan their schedules for 2025. That is why - as a matter of goodwill and to provide sufficient comfort to the players for the immediate future - FIDE took the ...

The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off next month in Germany with 10 of the top players in the world before legs in Paris, New York, Delhi and Cape Town. FIDE are warning the FCPC ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

These contracts will include clauses explicitly prohibiting participation in any alternative world chess championships not sanctioned by FIDE, with the sole exception of the 2025 Freestyle Chess ...

India will host the 2025 FIDE Chess World Cup from October 31 ... including Gukesh Dommaraju’s historic World Chess Championship win and the team's gold medals at the 2024 Chess Olympiad.

After he walked away from the classical Fide World Championship cycle in 2022, Carlsen has been a promoter of Freestyle Chess (chess960), backed by German entrepreneur Jan Buettner. Magnus Carlsen ...

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The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off in Germany in February with 10 of the top players in the world, before legs in Paris, New York, New Delhi and Cape Town. Fide is warning the ...

The federation, known by its French acronym FIDE, last month accused Freestyle Chess of encroaching on its authority by seeking to brand a Freestyle Chess event as a world championship.