Magnus Carlsen opined that reigning world champion D Gukesh won’t be the favourite to defend his title, if one of the ...

Carlsen believes that his contemporaries like Nakamura, Caruana and Nepomniachtchi will be favourites against Gukesh in the ...

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen prepares for a decisive final-round clash against Gukesh Dommaraju at the 2024 Norway Chess ...

His name was Ian Nepomniachtchi, an up-and-coming grandmaster Carlsen had handpicked as one of his “seconds”—a term for the elite players who moonlight as study companions around the biggest ...

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have caused a stir in the chess community after agreeing to share the World Blitz ...

Magnus Carlsen says he will not defend his world championship title next year against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi because he has no motivation to play the match. The Norwegian grandmaster ...

The contenders: Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi up against Ding Liren of China - a tussle between the world number 2 (Nepomniachtchi) and the world number 3 (Ding). Two deserving players ...

Ian Nepomniachtchi. Curiously, going into the final, the man-bun wearing Nepo—as his surname (meaning in Russian: “forgetful”) is often shortened—was one of the few players to hold a plus ...

This article is part of our 2021 World Chess Championship series. Since Friday, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi have been spending their days in a glass box in Dubai ...

Ding prevailed in a rapid-play tiebreaker against Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. He is the first Chinese man to hold the world title. By Dylan Loeb McClain Chess is considered the ultimate game of ...