2025 Grand Slam Tour winner to be titled 'Freestyle Chess Champion'
At a meeting in Weissenhaus on Sunday, the Freestyle Chess Players Club declared the 2025 Grand Slam Tour winner will be ...
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Magnus Carlsen Favored To Win Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus
The event is organized by Freestyle Chess, an organization co-founded by Carlsen and German businessman Jan Henric Buettner. The Weissenhaus tournament is the first of five legs of the group’s ...
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Magnus Carlsen on why the future of chess lies in freestyle
ON FEBRUARY 7th the inaugural tournament of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will begin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. My anticipation is immense. At the Weissenhaus Resort, the world’s top ...
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Carlsen v FIDE row intensifies over Freestyle Chess World Championship
has been gaining in popularity after an invitational tournament played last year at the Weissenhaus Luxury Resort, which hosted the G7 Foreign Minister summit in 2022. In Chess960/Freestyle chess ...
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Gukesh, Carlsen in Freestyle Grand Chess Tour and feud with FIDE: explained
Misha Friedman/Getty Images Freestyle Chess's invitational format reserved one spot for the reigning world champion -- which means Gukesh will be taking part in the tournament. Gukesh will be the ...