jmetaB030350a068a2f2d1dc267edb7394252d872a51e6a41f5480fee341a26635dd2db0@91a3e49ea873c193aec5671859941e8547e97aee95b69231a07bad809799a99frss.item metarss.netM <item> <title>Freestyle Chess plans 2025 global Tour for Carlsen and the worldâs top players</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/23/freestyle-chess-plans-2025-global-tour-for-carlsen-and-the-worlds-top-players</link> <description><p>The world No 1âs impressive victory last week has put the random chess variant into the spotlight and its billionaire organiser plans to expand into all five continents next year</p><p>After the success of last weekâs Freestyle Chess event where the world No&nbsp;1, Magnus Carlsen, defeated the world No&nbsp;2, Fabiano Caruana, <a href="https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2662846T">in the final</a>, its billionaire organiser, Jan Buettner, who made his fortune from AOL Europe, has stepped up his interest further. Buettner adopted a hands-on personal approach to the all-star event and his enthusiasm and involvement shone <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxqVl_ZbT0w">in an interview</a> he gave to Chessbase India immediately after the tournament.</p><p>Buettnerâs plan is a Freestyle elite eight-GM invitation in India late in 2024, followed by a five-continent global Tour in 2025, and Âincluding a new four-player Âwomenâs Âtournament. Weissenhaus had a $200,000 (£158,000) prize fund, but even that may be just the start, as Buettner has stated that his ambition is for $1m for each of the continental knockouts.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/23/freestyle-chess-plans-2025-global-tour-for-carlsen-and-the-worlds-top-players">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/magnus-carlsen">Magnus Carlsen</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/chess">Chess</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:00:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/23/freestyle-chess-plans-2025-global-tour-for-carlsen-and-the-worlds-top-players</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/09a50c9a7e04c2260e65c1088981dde82844a369/0_234_1536_921/master/1536.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8b57c6fe17aa31473773a38ea359091b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/09a50c9a7e04c2260e65c1088981dde82844a369/0_234_1536_921/master/1536.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a496f10d42187a02ebc94ede03bec1c5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Leonard Barden</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-02-23T08:00:42Z</dc:date> </item>
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