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

As though to embody fears that this world championship, like others in recent ... Kirsan Ilymzhinov, for my 2003 book, The Chess Artist. Dvorkovich, however, is different from Ilymzhinov.

The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off in Germany in February with 10 of the top players in the world, before legs in Paris, New York, New Delhi and Cape Town. Fide is warning the ...