But the private tournament, co-owned by Jan Henric Buettner and Magnus Carlsen, has also brought plenty of controversy and the FIDE has accused it of dividing the chess world. Freestyle Chess is ...

Freestyle Chess, created by German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner and endorsed by Magnus Carlsen, introduces excitement into chess with randomised starting positions and faster gameplay.

The international chess body further went on to claim that the Magnus Carlsen, Jan Henric Buettner-led organisation has failed to acknowledge FIDE’s status as the sole regulator of World Chess ...

A row is brewing in the world of chess – at the center of it are a disgruntled world federation and a chess variant – with ...

World Champion D Gukesh starts his journey in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, a new format birthed by Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, with mixed results. Despite controversies with FIDE, the ...

PARIS – Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour boss Jan Henric Buettner and all-time great Magnus Carlsen have called on International Chess Federation (Fide) president Arkady Dvorkovich to resign ...

This isn't just another chess tournament though, with a public spat involving Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner, the promoters of the FCGT with FIDE, chess's governing body in the build-up to the ...

In the meeting, which also included co-owner Jan Henric Buettner, the players decided to name the winner of the Grand Slam Tour as the ‘Freestyle Chess Champion’. D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen ...

Carlsen, in collaboration with a German businessman, Jan Henric Buettner, has launched a new chess tour, titled the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, and FIDE objected to their use of the term ‘Word ...

The idea is old but the execution is new. Carlsen has teamed up with German venture capitalist Jan Henric Buettner, the owner of the Weissenhaus estate, to start the Freestyle Chess series.