All posts tagged: Magnus Carlsen vs FIDE

Magnus Carlsen trolls FIDE in Team Liquid announcement video: ‘Do I have to change?’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen trolls FIDE in Team Liquid announcement video: ‘Do I have to change?’ | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen could not resist taking a dig at FIDE in his announcement video for esports franchise, Team Liquid, on Friday. Carlsen will join forces with Fabiano Caruana for Team Liquid with an eye on the upcoming Esports World Cup. The announcement video sees Carlsen wear a Team Liquid jersey along with a jacket and jeans. He then asks: “Do I have to change?” To this, someone responds: “Don’t worry, we’re pretty chill in esports. Welcome to Team Liquid.” The reference is a dig at FIDE, the global governing body for chess, with whom Carlsen has butted heads recently over the Freestyle Chess Tour. The disagreements between Carlsen and FIDE over him wearing jeans at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship in December led to the World No 1 quitting the FIDE World Rapid Championship before being coaxed into competing at the FIDE World Blitz Championship, which he jointly won. Carlsen had withdrawn because he was sporting jeans at the game and was asked by the arbiter to change. While Carlsen said he would …

Magnus Carlsen takes another jibe at FIDE: ‘It’s very useful when you have a governing body that doesn’t necessarily have players interest at heart’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen takes another jibe at FIDE: ‘It’s very useful when you have a governing body that doesn’t necessarily have players interest at heart’ | Chess News

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It seems like the feud between FIDE, world chess governing body, and five-time World Champion Magnus Carlsen, is not ending anytime soon. A couple of days after making a startling revelation that he won’t be playing in the FIDE events anymore and will be focus more on his project Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, Carlsen has taken another jibe at the FIDE. On Sunday evening meeting in Weissenhaus with Freestyle Chess organizer Jan Henric Buettner, 12 Freestyle Chess Players Club members, including Magnus has planned to form their own independent association with a qualified legal team to represent their interests. Story continues below this ad “What I will say is I think it was generally a fruitful discussion,” Carlsen told Take Take Take, when asked about what was discussed in the roundtable with some of the players at the event. “I think it was generally a fruitful discussion; I think it was very helpful for players to be able to talk, and that’s very useful when you have a governing body that doesn’t necessarily have …

Magnus Carlsen trolls FIDE in Team Liquid announcement video: ‘Do I have to change?’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen says he won’t play in FIDE events anymore | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen has made it clear that he won’t be playing in the FIDE events anymore and will be focus more on his project Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. After spending the past two months battling against the world governing body of chess, FIDE, Carlsen’s comment is not surprising. However, the Carsen has insisted that he is not trying to take down classical chess with his Freestyle chess project. Story continues below this ad The feud between the former World Champion and FIDE started after the launch of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grandslam. “FIDE has actually ‘backed out.’ What I can say now is that the relationship that my team and I have with FIDE is pretty destroyed. At least with the current administration,” Magnus Carlsen told Norwegian TV network TV2. “What I can say now is that the relationship that my team and I have with FIDE is pretty destroyed. At least with the current administration.” Magnus Carlsen said that for now he won’t be participating in the World Rapid & Blitz Championships, scheduled …

FIDE CEO slams Magnus Carlsen, Freestyle Chess: ‘If you want a war

FIDE CEO slams Magnus Carlsen, Freestyle Chess: ‘If you want a war

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FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky has slammed the organisers of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour and world no 1 Magnus Carlsen in an explosive Twitter thread. The latest post from Sutovsky came after Freestyle Chess head Jan Henric Buettner recently gave interviews to Norwegian media calling FIDE “stupid” and saying they were “ready for war”. The organisers of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour and the global governing body for chess, have been at loggerheads for months now, with FIDE taking objection to the winner of the Grand Slam Tour being called a “world champion”. Story continues after this ad Simultaneously, Carlsen also gave an interview with Gambling Insider where he said that he was not “aiming to be bigger than chess” But then, while apparently talking about FIDE, he said: “Specific organisations… are not bigger than I am.” Meanwhile, Hikaru Nakamura had also slammed Sutovsky’s claims about how much money FIDE was making for players as “horses**t.” Sutovsky addressed the comments in his Twitter post. “‘I am bigger than FIDE’ concept didn’t work even …

Chess body sends strong message slamming Freestyle Chess Players Club

Chess body sends strong message slamming Freestyle Chess Players Club

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The global governing body of chess, FIDE, has slammed the Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) — which counts Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi, Praggnanandhaa, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana as members — for “steps taken by the FCPC project which unavoidably leads to divisions in the chess world”. FIDE slammed FCPC for “attempts to present their project as a World Championship”. FIDE said this was “in contradiction with the well-established status of FIDE and its authority over world championship titles in all relevant variations of chess – including Chess960/Freestyle chess, as outlined in the FIDE Handbook.” FIDE and some of the most prominent players in the world like Carlsen and Nakamura had clashed over the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour last year just before the FIDE World rapid and Blitz Championship. The main bone of contention was the attempt by the organisers of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour to call their event a World Championship. FIDE had taken strong objection to this. FIDE went on to add that all qualified players …

FIDE President on Magnus Carlsen jeans controversy: ‘I sincerely regret that this situation escalated’ | Chess News

FIDE President on Magnus Carlsen jeans controversy: ‘I sincerely regret that this situation escalated’ | Chess News

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FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has given clarification regarding the dress code controversy surrounded by Magnus Carlsen. The Fide president regretted that the way situation escalated and called the withdrawal of Magnus Carlsen “extremely unfortunate.” However, Magnus Carlsen on Sunday has confirmed that he will be playing in the World Blitz Championship a couple of days after he pulled out because he was fined by FIDE for violating the dress code rules by wearing jeans on day 2 of the event. “It is unfortunate that the implementation of dress-code rules, while being legally sound and consistent, has left some feeling this is disproportionate and caused the situation everyone would have preferred to avoid, including some of the words being said at the peak of emotions that one would most probably regret afterwards,” said Dvorkovich in a statement released by FIDE. Magnus Carlsen gives his acceptance speech at the FIDE 100 Gala with Arkady Dvorkovich, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and current president of FIDE, standing in the background. (FIDE/Michal Walusza) “The withdrawal of Magnus Carlsen, …

Magnus Carlsen on wearing jeans: ‘It was appropriate for a 200-player chess tournament’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen on wearing jeans: ‘It was appropriate for a 200-player chess tournament’ | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen said that he doesn’t had any issue with the fine and the rules but it was the intent of the rule that forced him to pull out. However, Magnus Carlsen on Sunday has confirmed that he will be playing in the World Blitz Championship a couple of days after he pulled out because he was fined by FIDE for violating the dress code rules by wearing jeans on day 2 of the event. “I think it has to be about the intent of the rule, right? Not necessarily like the very minutes of the letter of the law. I think that’s how any reasonable arbiter, like any reasonable body of, that’s how it should be,” he told “Take Take Take.” “I thought the punishment that they were going to hand out for was unbelievably harsh. And yeah, I didn’t agree with it. I didn’t want to comply. “And I stand by that. Of course, I could have done what other players do, but what will happen now is that there will be some …

Magnus Carlsen on Viswanathan Anand: ‘For all his good qualities, he is not ready for FIDE job’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen on Viswanathan Anand: ‘For all his good qualities, he is not ready for FIDE job’ | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen on Sunday has confirmed that he will be playing in the World Blitz Championship a couple of days after he pulled out because he was fined by FIDE for violating the dress code rules by wearing jeans on day 2 of the event. “Well, first of all, let’s go back to a couple of days ago. I did have some choice words for FIDE in my interview with you. And I would say that it was a bit imprecise. I definitely mean it when it comes to certain people in FIDE. No question about it,” Carlsen told “Take, Take, Take.” “I think the situation was badly mishandled on their side. And I was about to basically book my plane tickets and get out of here. My father said that we should maybe wait until the morning to make a decision to speak to the FIDE president, Arkady Dvorkovich, whom we have a good relationship with. “We know that we can reason with him. I think him actually being asleep when this thing went …

Magnus Carlsen takes a U-turn, says will participate in the World Blitz Championship: ‘I’m definitely playing in jeans’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen takes a U-turn, says will participate in the World Blitz Championship: ‘I’m definitely playing in jeans’ | Chess News

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A couple of days after pulling out from FIDE World Rapid and Blitz tournament, Magnus Carlsen has taken a U-turn. Carlsen has confirmed that he will participate in the World Blitz Championship and after a few alterations to the rules, he will playing in the jeans. Speaking to Levi Rozman from “Take, Take, Take” at the playing venue on Wall Street, Carlsen said: “I am playing at least one more day here in New York and, if I do well, another day after that”. “We had a lot of discussions yesterday and we have a good relationship with FIDE President Dvorkovich… Speaking to Dvorkovich and the main sponsor Turlov it did feel we could have some fruitful discussions and in the end of the day I decided to play,” Carlsen said. FIDE in a statement has also confirmed that Magnus Carlsen will participate in the FIDE World Blitz Championship. “FIDE looks forward to continuing our collaboration with Mr. Carlsen and the global chess community to enhance the conditions and atmosphere of FIDE competitions, ensuring the …

Susan Polgar on Magnus Carlsen vs FIDE feud over wearing jeans: ‘This could have been avoided’ | Chess News

Susan Polgar on Magnus Carlsen vs FIDE feud over wearing jeans: ‘This could have been avoided’ | Chess News

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Chess legend Susan Polgar said the feud between Magnus Carlsen and FIDE “could have been avoided,” if the rules from the chess governing body were more clearer. Magnus Carlsen pulled out of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz tournament on Friday night after he was fined by the global governing body of the sport for wearing jeans. While Magnus Carlsen was offered the option by FIDE of changing his attire, he opted to stop playing at the year-end event calling it a “matter of principle”. For/against every single time! The problem was not about the jeans! I have read countless comments and posts about the “jeans” incident that took place yesterday at the World Rapid Chess Championships. Just like any major chess incidents in the past, there are clearly 2 sides.… pic.twitter.com/ui4kuPoNmn — Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar) December 28, 2024 Susan in a long post on X pointed out how the situation could have been diffused. Here are a few points Susan made 🔴 The FIDE rules without a doubt could have been written clearer and …