Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus Day 5 Highlights D Gukesh remains winless in Weissenhaus after a 59-move stalemate ...

Vincent Keymer, meanwhile, completes a fairytale victory over Magnus Carlsen by holding the world No 1 to a draw in Game 2 of ...

D Gukesh will need to beat Fabiano Caruana in game 2 of the quarterfinals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour to stay alive in ...

D Gukesh drew four and lost one of his five games on the opening day of the Freestyle Chess Grand Tour in Weissenhauss, ...

Magnus Carlsen, a 34-year-old Norwegian, is among the greatest chess players of all time.

Freestyle Chess' randomized back rank saw all four quarterfinals begin with position 270, which has knights at a1 and d1, rooks at b1 and h1, the king at ... faces one of Hikaru Nakamura and ...

It had knights on a1 & f1, rooks on b1 & e1, king on c1, bishops on d1 & g1 ... the same as the game between Jakovhir Sindarov and Hikaru Nakamura, before a 20-minute think saw Gukesh deviate.

He had defended the position well enough to reach an end game where the Uzbek pushed as hard as he could with just two knights against Gukesh's king ... against Hikaru Nakamura, but had used ...

He sealed the title in New York after a draw against Karen H Grigoryan in the final round, and a victory in the penultimate round vs R Praggnanandhaa, which saw a sensational king march.

Fans have also been disappointed by the absence of Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann ... who forgot to look after his weakened king. After his defeat, he once again ignored Vaishali ...