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World's No. 1 Chess Player Magnus Carlsen Quits Tournament After Refusing to Change Out of Jeans: 'Matter of Principle'

Magnus Carlsen dropped out of a major chess tournament Friday after he refused to change out of his jeans.

Latin Times

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quits a tournament in a dispute over jeans

The International Chess Federation says top ranked player Magnus Carlsen has left the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships after refusing to change out of the jeans he wore to the competition

The Independent UK

Chess Great Magnus Carlsen Quits Tournament Over Jeans Debate

A pair of jeans removed the top chess player from the world championship tournament.

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World chess number one quits tournament after being told to change his jeans

The world No1 was fined by the World Chess Federation for breaking the dress code

The Independent UK

Chess: Carlsen disqualified in New York after refusing to change out of jeans

The world No 1 was defaulted from the World Rapid Championship and has withdrawn from the World Blitz

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Gukesh and India celebrate after win but new challenges are emerging

The youngest ever undisputed world champion, 18, had a rapturous reception on his return to Chennai, but his new status will be tested at Wijk aan Zee in January

The Guardian - UK

Chess is now an esport as Esports World Cup adds the 1,500 year-old game to 2025 event, calls it 'the perfect example of how games evolve'

And Magnus Carlsen is "thrilled" to be on board.

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Indian teen credits Magnus Carlsen as he becomes youngest ever world chess champion

Gukesh Dommaraju beat China’s defending champion Ding Liren to take title

The Independent UK

Teenage prodigy Gukesh D defeats Ding Liren to become youngest world chess champion

Eighteen-year-old Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju has become the new world chess champion, winning the final game of the title match after a dramatic blunder from the reigning champ, China’s Ding Liren.

The Conversation

Ding and Gukesh miss wins as World Chess Championship nears climax

China’s world champion and India’s 18-year-old challenger are deadlocked at 4.5-4.5 in their $2.5m, best-of-14 series which finishes next week

The Guardian - UK

From Bobby Fischer to Magnus Carlsen: 22 of the most famous world chess championship games

The 138-year history of the world chess championship is filled with games of rare precision, imagination and brilliance. Go move by move through 22 of them below

The Guardian - US

World Chess Championship 2024: Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju pre-match questions, answered

Not sure when the world chess championship starts, who’s tipped to win, and why Magnus Carlsen isn’t playing? We (mostly) have the answers

The Guardian - US

World Chess Championship final 2024: Schedule, format, prize money, players

All the details about the biggest two weeks in chess as a young Indian grandmaster takes on the Chinese world champion.

Al Jazeera

Champion Ding and challenger Gukesh prepare for world title battle

China’s world champion Ding Liren, 32, will face his Indian rival Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, on Monday.

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UK Blitz chess final pits grandmasters against a golden generation

Juniors make up nearly half the field, including a nine-year-old top seed, while in Kolkata Magnus Carlsen surged to victory in the Tata Steel Rapid

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Garry Kasparov still has it at 61 as he holds his own against the US elite

The former world champion scored 4.5/9 in the 9LX tournament and also revealed new details about his 1997 match with the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer

The Independent UK

After 20 years at the top of chess, Magnus Carlsen is making his next move

Few chess players have produced the magic commodity which separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity

The Guardian - UK

Chess: Fabiano Caruana, world No 2, wins fourth US Championship title

Caruana showed his clear superiority in the open event at St Louis, while Carissa Yip won her first eight games in the women’s championship

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What’s brown, shiny and boasts a sexy sheen of scandal? Welcome to the world of conkers

Sports fans love the drama of cheating accusations but perhaps event organisers love the resulting media attention even more

The Guardian - UK

Carlsen struggles amid controversy at $1m Global Chess League in London

The world No 1 lost to Firouzja in round two and although he won the return game, his team failed to reach the final, in which Triveni Continental Kings face PBG Alaskan Knights

The Guardian - UK

Magnus Carlsen: ‘Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that’

The football-mad world No 1 is in London playing for a $1m prize fund and despite dominating the chess world says he has never played the perfect game

The Guardian - UK

Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and the chess elite now playing in London

Eight of the world top 12 are competing in the Global Chess League at Friends House, Euston, from 3-12 October, with spectator tickets bookable online

The Guardian - UK

Chess: India win double gold as new generation dominates at Olympiad

India won the Open and Women’s Olympiads in Budapest, while for the first time in history no European team reached the podium in either event

The Guardian - UK

Chess: India win every match at Olympiad as US and England trail

With three rounds to go, India have won all eight of their matches in Budapest without loss of a game, while the top seeded US team is fifth and England 17th

The Guardian - UK

Chess: England seeded eighth as Carlsen targets gold at Budapest Olympiad

The world No 1 will lead Norway at the event in Hungary shortly after defeating Hans Niemann and Alireza Firouzja at the speed championship finals in Paris

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