German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner was head of AOL Germany in the 1990s and a California venture capitalist in the early ...

Hamburg entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner only has one word: Mega! Buettner has been making a name for himself as a sponsor and investor in the chess scene for a good year now. He has invited the ...

Chess fans around the world were left shocked when Jan Henric Buettner announced the participation of Hans Niemann at the upcoming Paris Freestyle Grand Slam event, scheduled for April.

But the bone of contention lies in the FCPC co-founders Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner also wanting to start an official Freestyle World Championship, without interference from FIDE.

“We got the players in one room and asked how they felt about the FIDE standoff,” Buettner told TimesofIndia.com ahead of the Paris leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. Bombay Sport ...

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 ...