The top-ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, quit the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York on Friday due to a dispute over the dress code. Carlsen refused to change ...

Reigning World Rapid and Blitz Champion Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the 2024 World Rapid and Blitz Championships held in New York City. The Norwegian chess icon was barred from ...

Significantly, the loss came against Magnus Carlsen, in the first meeting between the two players since Gukesh became world champion in December. That was the last match of the round robin stage ...

D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen during a match. The championship reached the decisive fourteenth game, and it was going according to Liren’s plan, who was trying to enforce a tie-breaker.

After his win in Singapore, chess great Magnus Carlsen had said that classical chess was perhaps the "worst way" to measure a player, adding that rapid chess was perhaps a more "pure" form of chess.