Carlsen has partnered with German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner to launch the tour with tournaments in Germany, India, France (Paris), the USA (New York), and South Africa (Cape Town).

Five-time world champion and current World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen is set to play a unique vote chess match against the world in a Freestyle format.

Vidit, who will marry Dr. Nidhi Kataria on April 3, has qualified as the 12th and final participant for the tournament’s Paris leg, which runs from April 7 to 14. Vidit’s decision to jump ...

Former World Champion Bobby Fischer was the pioneer who invented the freestyle format and Carlsen has been a vocal proponent of the same in recent years as he has started a Freestyle tournament in ...

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is a private event founded by Carlsen and German entrepreneur, Jan Henric Buettner. There was a dispute between the organisers and World Chess body, FIDE, over the use ...

The Freestyle Chess initiative was founded by Carlsen and German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner. They rolled out the first Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour this year, with the first leg held at ...

German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner was head of AOL Germany in the 1990s and a California venture capitalist in the early 2000s. In 2005, he decided to add castle owner to his résumé.

Ever since Donald Trump granted blanket clemency to more than a thousand Jan. 6 defendants, an open legal question has been how far that executive grace extends beyond offenses committed that day ...

The ensuing drama sees Martyn (Compston) and Rebecca Berwick (Mohindra) desperately trying to refute the false allegations made by Jan Boyd (Solly McLeod). Fear reaches a tragic end when the ...

President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, does not cover a conspiracy by one defendant to kill the law enforcement officials who ...

Fincantieri Marine Group’s Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) has named Jan Allman CEO. She succeeds current CEO Mark Vandroff, who is returning to Fincantieri Marine Group in a new role as its senior ...