India, Feb. 5 -- The chess world continues to be split along battle lines as Norwegian grandmaster and best player in the world Magnus Carlsen's war against organisational body FIDE roars on. With Carlsen now the face of the rival Freestyle Chess movement as he looks to decentralise top-level chess from FIDE control, a personal element has been added as Carlsen's rival and young upstart Hans Niemann took an opportunity to take a swipe at the Norwegian on social media.

Posting on X, American GM Niemann did not hold back any words as he attacked 34-year-old Carlsen publicly. Wrote Niemann in response to a post by Carlsen: "Arrogant, Entitled, Unaware, and most importantly: Cowardly. Your childish ego continues to distort reality at the exp...