Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code ...
Magnus Carlsen, five-time world champion, faced disqualification from the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship for violating FIDE's dress code by wearing jeans. Despite being fined USD 200 and ...
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE).Carlsen, ...
Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen was first fined and then disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in New York for his refusal to comply with FIDE's dress code after ...
Magnus Carlsen was fined $200 for wearing jeans before Chief Arbiter Alex Holowzsak disqualified him for repeated violation. “I am pretty tired of FIDE, so I want no more of this. I don’t want ...