4 min readUpdated: Jan 31, 2026 10:40 PM IST Fabiano Caruana, who is one of the glaring omissions from the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, has weighed in on the one-move blunder from world champion Gukesh Dommaraju against Nodirbek Abdusattorov calling it a case of “chess blindness”. Caruana did point out that this kind of a blunder “rarely happens to Gukesh… maybe it happens one in a hundred times”. The 19-year-old Gukesh’s form at the ongoing Tata Steel Chess masters has been under scrutiny after his defeats to Nodirbek, Anish Giri and Matthias Bluebaum. The game against Abdusattorov in round 6 had ended in a resignation from Gukesh after a single-move blunder that would have cost him a rook and a pawn. Meanwhile, against Bluebaum in round 9, Gukesh found himself in an inferior position out of the opening which he was never able to fight his way out of before resigning in 37 moves. A disappointed Gukesh after blundering an equal position against Nodirbek Abdusattorov. (PHOTO: Lennart Ootes) Talking about the …