Magnus Carlsen suffers a shock defeat to chess influencer Witty Alien after a costly blunder. Find out how the Bulgarian ...

Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, won the World Blitz Championship in December 2025 in Doha, Qatar. It was his ninth world blitz title and the twentieth world ...

Magnus Carlsen said he swapped his trademark appetite for complex positions for a more pragmatic, Mourinho-inspired approach at the Esports World Cup 2026, and the strategy paid off as the Norwegian ...

Strange things happen in Hamburg all the time. On the second weekend in January, at the Brahms-Kontor building — an Art Deco marvel in the city centre — Germany’s highest level of competitive team ...

Chess is popular worldwide, with over 600 million people playing it regularly in more than 200 countries. That has given Magnus Carlsen a lot of competition. And yet he's been the No. 1-ranked player ...

This comes as Carlsen participates in the World Electronic Sports Cup currently being held in the Saudi capital Riyadh, marking the first appearance of the game in a tournament which includes about ...