Freestyle chess, by randomising the starting point of the game, destroys this advantage of memory and pattern recognition; it ...

India’s world No.4 in this interview says the Carlsen-backed format will grow in popularity in the coming years ...

World champion D Gukesh will take on Fabiano Caruana of the United States in the two-game quarter-final after the latter ...

Magnus Carlsen questioned the validity of classical chess as a measure of skill, favoring rapid chess. Gukesh acknowledged ...

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, ...

Gukesh, made his foray in to the format taking a draw with Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan before going down to Alireza ...