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Chinese Chess Champ Stripped Of Title After Taking A Dump In A Bathtub
A Chinese chess champ has celebrated winning a recent tournament by (checks notes) pooing in a bathtub and being accused of cheating.
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The Chess World Is Losing Its Mind Over One Grandmaster Potentially Trolling Another
A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to be a troll (probably). A vitriolic fanbase armed with keyboards and anonymous screen names. And you thought these sorts of things only happened in video games. But even chess, a turn-based strategy game first released for wooden boards some 1,500 years…
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The World Chess Championship Is Never Going To End
Chess is already a gruelling affair. So imagine what it’d be like to play a grandmaster, sitting there sweating bullets for hours on end, using every ounce of concentration. Now imagine playing 12 games over 18 days. And guess what? You’re still not finished. Because after 10 draws, that’s precisely where this year’s World Chess…