The 12 members of the Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) have decided against using term ‘world champion for the winner of ...

Gukesh secured eighth place with 3.5 points. Alireza Firouzja and Javokhir Sindarov topped the table, followed by Fabiano Caruana. The event features a USD 750,000 prize pool. Playing with white ...

World champion D Gukesh made a steady start at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, adapting to the unique format amid rising ...

However, this was enough for him to secure eighth place in the ten-player format, which could be described as one of the strongest chess events ... Iranian-turned-French Grandmaster Alireza Firouzja ...

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Weissenhaus Highlights ... suffers his first defeat of the tournament after resigning in 35 moves against Alireza Firouzja, who moves into the joint-lead. Both ...

Alireza Firouzja, Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer, Vladimir Fedoseev and Javokhir Sindarov. Sindarov was roped in as a last-minute replacement for five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, who pulled ...

India's Gukesh Dommaraju is on the verge of a quarter-final exit at the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam event in Wissenhaus, ...

At Gong, we use a system known as Elo to do this. Originally developed for ranking competitive chess players, it can also serve as the basis for evaluating and comparing the relative performance of ...

World No.1 Magnus Carlsen has accused FIDE of coercion and broken promises after its dispute with Freestyle Chess escalated. The feud centers on FIDE's opposition to Freestyle's use of the "World ...