Though he failed to snap his winless run on the seventh and penultimate day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in ...

PARIS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The ongoing dispute between the international chess federation (FIDE) and Magnus Carlsen escalated when the governing body hit out at the Freestyle Chess Players Club ...

But Carlsen again appeared to game Fide and force it to change its rules ... support for Carlsen appeared to dwindle as it appeared that the world No.1 may have perhaps overplayed his hand.

Magnus Carlsen criticised FIDE after co-founding Freestyle Chess Players Club with Jan Henric Beuttner, which led to a dispute over the term "World Championship". Carlsen supports Beuttner's ...