FIDE director general Emil Sutovsky responded to Magnus Carlsen and leaders of his Freestyle Chess venture in a heated social media post.

Referencing former champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, FIDE remarked that similar attitudes from past legends ultimately ‘did not work’ for them, signalling a sharp rebuke to Carlsen’s stance ...

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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics. Her writing and translations have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The ...

Freestyle Chess head Jan Henric Buettner recently gave interviews to Norwegian media calling FIDE "stupid" and saying they ...