NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a ...

NEW YORK – Top ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen has left the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships after refusing to change out of the jeans he wore to the competition, the International Chess ...

History was created on January 1, Wednesday, in New York, when Grandmasters Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi decided to ...

The world's top chess player quit a major tournament in New York City after officials told him he couldn't wear jeans to compete. Magnus Carlsen, 34, was competing in the International Chess ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship being held in New York after refusing to change out of jeans to abide by a dress code. The Norwegian chess ...

Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. Inevitably, however, we are talking about jeans. “A lot of people want to see some kind of conspiracy behind things,” he ...

STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen’s celebrity status. A grand master at 13, refusing to play an American dogged by allegations of cheating, and venturing into the world ...

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game ...