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...Magnus Carlsen won another two world championships last week when the Norwegian, 33, again confirmed his status as the outstanding player of his generation....
...World No1 Magnus Carlsen, in conjunction with the promoter Jan Buettner, has announced a new multimillion Freestyle Chess Tour, following last month’s inaugural event in Northern Germany....
...Last year, chess fans and the wider public were gripped by the continuing saga of world No 1 Magnus Carlsen v Hans Niemann, which included allegations of historic cheating, withdrawal from a major tournament...
...Half of the eight competitors, including world No 1 Magnus Carlsen and the current world champion Ding Liren, are over-30s, while the other four are under-21s....
...Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, and Ding Liren, the official world champion, will meet this weekend for the first time since the Norwegian, 33, abdicated his crown after a 10-year dominance....
...Puzzle number 2534A Magnus Carlsen v Nijat Abasov, World Cup semi-final, Baku 2023. Black chose 1 . . . Rg6 and lost. How could he have beaten the World No 1?...
...To the wheel: Congratulations to Carl Magnus Magnusson, of the OECD, who’s this week’s winner of the exclusive FTAV “I heart charts” tee....
...The world No1, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, abdicated his title in 2023 after a 10-year reign....
...Magnus Carlsen is now an ex-world champion after the Norwegian, 32, abdicated the crown he had held with distinction for a decade....
...Nepomniachtchi, 33, won the last two Candidates but lost the subsequent world championship matches of 2021 to Magnus Carlsen and 2023 to Ding Liren....
The plight of disillusioned, pessimistic youth is a blight on the economy — and society
...The US 20-year-old made headlines last year when the world No1 Magnus Carlsen refused to play him. He later launched a $100mn lawsuit against Carlsen and others....
...The RAC’s excellently produced brochure shows that chess is experiencing a popularity wave at universities due to Magnus Carlsen, Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, and the easy accessibility of online speed...
...The World Cup knock-out is the only major individual chess event that Magnus has never won, but this week the Norwegian legend, 32, is close to reaching the final of the $1.8m, 206-player competition in...
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...Magnús was an MP and chair of the Social Democratic Alliance, which came to power in the wake of Iceland’s 2008 banking crisis....
...World No 1 Magnus Carlsen duly won last week’s Freestyle Chess invitation at the Weissenhaus resort in north Germany, though not without a scare, as the Norwegian, 33, was within one game of a quarter-final...
...Magnus Carlsen, the world number one, and the rising US talent Hans Niemann have resolved their cheating claim dispute, which led to a $100mn lawsuit and polarised opinion among chess fans....
...George Magnus is an associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, research associate at SOAS, and author of Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy....
...Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, has been in surging form this month with an eye-catching run of success....
...Meanwhile, Magnus Carlsen, who held the world crown in classical chess for a decade before abdicating in 2023, won two more world rapid and blitz championships last month, losing only once in 34 games....
...Magnus Carlsen, who is enjoying his games more since he abdicated the world crown, scored 11/11 in Chess.com’s Titled Tuesday, where he began all his black games with 1...a7-a6....
...Ding’s next classical tournament, at Stavanger in May, where his five opponents will be led by the world top pair of Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, will test his credibility as world champion still...
...Magnus Carlsen’s Alpine Warriors and Vishy Anand’s Ganges Grandmasters had led most of the way, but were passed in the closing rounds....
...Puzzle 2539 Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura, chess.com Speed Championship 2023. Black to move. What would you play against the world No 1? Click here for solution...
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