Carlsen admitted that he knew the third game was over, and that defeat was inevitable, but kept fighting regardless. It turned out to be the prudent choice.

World’s best chess player Magnus Carlsen was stunned by 15-year-old Iranian prodigy Sina Movahed who played a game with 100% ...

Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen defended his chess world championship title by beating American challenger Fabiano Caruana 3-0 in rapid tiebreaker games on Wednesday. After their three-week match ...

This is the best chess game Magnus Carlsen ever played, featuring a thrilling showdown between Magnus Carlsen (Elo: 2862) and Levon Aronian (Elo: 2797). **0:00** Introduction **0:45** Game Analysis ...

Argentina’s Faustino Oro and Turkey’s Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, both in their early teens, are taking the chess world by storm and ...

Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140,000 people worldwide in a mega-match that could overturn expectations by ending in a draw in the next few days.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has topped the Premier League Fantasy Football table ahead of seven million other players. The Norwegian grandmaster, better known for his movements with 16 pieces, ...

The world No 1 won his 21st global title by defeating his old rival Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle chess at Weissenhaus in Germany ...

The 20-year-old scored a career-best result by defeating the World No 1 in the Norwegian’s favourite format, then won 1.5-0.5 against the US champion, Fabiano Caruana, in the final Vincent Keymer made ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, made a cameo appearance via video in last Monday’s third episode of BBC2’s Chess Masters: The Endgame, challenging contestants to memorise a position from a “special” ...