How to Ends A Room Vs. Freestyle Chess Row full of Grandmasters End Chess News

New Delhi: Vishwanathan Anand hoped to move towards the initial leg Freestyle chess Grand Slam Tour in Visenhus, Germany earlier this year.
But a few days before the incident, the world of five times chess The champion was taken out.
While his return was not dramatic as Hans Neemon’s last minute exit from Paris leg, Anand’s absence was a sufficient setback for the ambitions of freestyle chess.
In the case of Anand, they lost not only an experienced contestant, but a vice -president from the country of 1.4 billion people and a global chess icon.
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Their participation was initially seen as a step towards melting tensions between the fail and freestyle chess over the right to use the term “World Championship”.
The freestyle chess at the center of the controversy decided to call his last winner of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam a “world champion” – a title Fide insisted that it could provide alone.
The governing body raised the issue with the invitation-cavalry format of freestyle events, claiming that competitions with only open, transparent merit systems should be allowed to use that title.
The presence of Anand in the Visenhus event was thus seen as a possible twist in the Cold War between two chess camps, suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a common ground.
But then “jeans dispute” came.
During the Fide World Rapid and Blitz Championships last December, World No. 1 and Freestyle’s co-founder Magnus Carlson defined the dress code norms by showing it in jeans.
With FID President Archdi Dvorkovich unavailable, the responsibility of taking the call fell on Anand, who retained the rule book.
Fide slaps Carlson with 200 WASD and issued a warning: change or disqualify your dress.
Carlson, unaffected, removed back: “Anand was not ready for this job.”
Soon after, Anand withdrew from a freestyle event in Germany.
“We asked Vishi,” What if Magnus apologizes? ” Freestyle co-founder Jan Henic Buetner told Timesofindia.com in February. “But in the end, he said that he felt more comfortable not to participate.”
Behind the curtain, Buettner and Dvorkovich were in regular dialogue, broker attempted peace.
But as soon as the progress seems to be within reach, Buetner dropped a bomb: an open letter in which the previous talks were accused of retreating.
The letter alleged that the Freestyle rejected a temporary agreement after Freestyle refused to accept the monopoly of the Fide on the “World Champion” title.
Fide confirmed the conversation with a public statement but denied any formal agreement.
The body clarified that a discount was offered to ensure that the freestyle players remained eligible for official events, provided that Freestyle dropped the championship label and signed by 4 February.
A week later, the world’s top Grandmaster took matters into their own hands.
In a private meeting at Visenhus, members of the unique freestyle chess Players Club (open to those rated only above 2725) unanimously voted: The winner of the 2025 Freestyle Grand Slam Tour, who ended in December in South Africa, will be crowned “Freestyle Shake Champion”.
“We met the players in a room and asked how they feel about the friend standoff,” Buettner told Timesofindia.com ahead of Paris leg of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

“First, most of them didn’t really care. So we said, let’s wait till the end of the year. The players can decide.
According to Buettner, the final call was a collective by the players: “It is a players’ tournament. During the technical meetings and whenever questions arise, we decide the players by majority votes.”
For now, it seems that the row of Fid vs. Freestyle Chess has cooled down. Whether it lives in this way or disappears again, may be less dependent on the authorities and more on the grandmasters in the room.