Freestyle Chess Grand Slam: Erigaisi loses to Nepomniachtchi

World number four Arjun Erigaisi was outplayed by Ian Nepomniachtchi in the opening game of the 59 place tiebreak at the ongoing Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Paris. IMAGE: Kindly note that this......

Freestyle Chess: Arjun draws with Nakamura

IMAGE: World champion D Gukesh lost to Richard Rapport of Hungary in the 9-12 place play-off at the Freestyle chess tournament in Paris on Wednesday. Photograph: Freestyle Chess World No. 4 Arjun......

Niemann gone AWOL as Freestyle Paris Grand Slam underway

'(Freestyle’s Chief Chess Officer) Sebastian (Siebrecht) came to me. Look... we have a big problem. Hans sent him an email and he said due to a personal situation out of my control, I cannot......

Erigaisi loses to Nakamura, Carlsen through to semis

IMAGE: India's Arjun Erigaisi was done in by Hikaru Nakamura's experience in the Freestyle Chess quarter-final in Paris on Thursday. Photograph: Kind courrtesy chess.com Grandmaster Arjun......

'I am still better than the young chess stars'

IMAGE: Magnus Carlsen is hunting on other grounds to show he is still the player to beat. Photograph: Mark Livshitz/FIDE Magnus Carlsen feels he's still better than the young generation......