STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen’s celebrity status. A grand master at 13, refusing to play an American dogged by allegations of cheating, and venturing into the world ...

At 24, Kaja Snare didn’t imagine she had a future in chess; she barely played the game. But in 2014, when she was a rookie sports reporter for TV2, Norway’s second-largest broadcast network, her ...

When Magnus Carlsen started playing chess at the age of eight, he grew up in “a hybrid generation,” mainly playing on the board, he tells Euronews Next in an interview. Fast forward 25 years and the ...

OSLO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the world's 23-year-old reigning chess champion, has launched an app based on his own past games to make chess more popular, but he'd prefer its ...