Bored with chess, the world’s top player wants to remake the game
Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...
Billionaire Ratcliffe’s big sports bet misfires
Magnus Carlsen, the five-time World Chess Champion and arguably the greatest player in history, has brought his peers and ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...
Puzzles and games
Welcome to the FT's hub of puzzles, games and quizzes. Print out the crosswords to complete them or Subscribers can now solve the FT’s Daily Cryptic, Polymath and FT Weekend crosswords on the iOS and ...