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The world champion with 9 lives: Gukesh saves dead lost position at Norway Chess | Chess News

The world champion with 9 lives: Gukesh saves dead lost position at Norway Chess | Chess News

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Vincent Keymer’s pawn sat haplessly on the g3 square, stranded there like a beached whale. All around it on the board, Keymer’s king and queen shuffled from one square to another desperately trying to provide the pawn with the breathing space for it to move just two squares ahead. Two forward pushes of the pawn, and Keymer would win his first round encounter at Norway Chess. Standing in the way of the pawn’s promotion and Keymer’s victory was world champion D Gukesh’s queen. With the game poised on a knife’s edge and with time trouble making the contest treacherous, Gukesh’s queen ran a marathon around the chess board for over 50 moves, delivering check after check. Like hitting a snooze button on what felt inevitable. Eventually, after four hours and 38 minutes, the 144-move game between Gukesh and Keymer ended in a draw. It was a result that felt psychologically as important as a win for the teenager who will be called upon to defend his world champion’s crown in six months’ time. After 18 …

Hikaru Nakamura reveals Gukesh’s ‘biggest weakness’ after beating world champion

Hikaru Nakamura reveals Gukesh’s ‘biggest weakness’ after beating world champion

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Hikaru Nakamura outlasted Gukesh in the 5-8 classification spot match on Wednesday. Both players played out two draws in the classical portion and then had another draw in the rapid tiebreak. The fourth game between the pair finally provided a result with the American World No 3 winning against the reigning world champion. The result means that Gukesh has not won a single game in the Weissenhaus leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. After his victory over the 18-year-old from Chennai, Nakamura explained what was going wrong in Gukesh’s game. Story continues below this ad “I would say probably the biggest weakness Gukesh currently has is that when he gets low on time, I don’t think his intuition is that great, and he simply couldn’t work through the calculations,” Nakamura said on Chess.com broadcast after his win over Gukesh. Nakamura was also surprised that Gukesh was analysing positions with World No 2 Fabiano Caruana before games. At the Freestyle Chess events, players are told their opening positions out of 960 possible variations just …

Gukesh loses to Hikaru Nakamura to remain winless at Weissenhaus

Gukesh loses to Hikaru Nakamura to remain winless at Weissenhaus

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Gukesh Dommaraju remains winless at Weissenhaus after losing to Hikaru Nakamura in the 5-8 classification spot match on Wednesday. The Gukesh vs Nakamura battle had to be decided in the rapid tiebreaks after both the classical time control games (first on Tuesday and second one played on Wednesday) ended in draws. In the two-game rapid tiebreak, the first game ended in a draw after 103 moves, but in the second game, Gukesh lost with white pieces after 33 moves. While the first tiebreak game was played in Position No 5, which was one of the more normal positions with not too much insanity on the starting position, the second game was played in position no 328. Besides the Gukesh versus Nakamura game, Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov also tussled in the tiebreak to figure out who would make it to the final at Weissenhaus. Vincent Keymer had already defeated Magnus Carlsen in the other semi-final to secure a spot in the final. Story continues below this ad Remarkably, Gukesh’s heart rate even when he was …

Why did Gukesh resign in just 18 moves to Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle Chess at Weissenhaus

Why did Gukesh resign in just 18 moves to Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle Chess at Weissenhaus

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Gukesh Dommaraju resigned after just 18 moves in the second game of the quarter-finals against Fabiano Caruana at the Weissenhaus leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. Gukesh needed to win the game on Monday after losing the first game with white pieces on Sunday against Caruana. Had he won with black pieces today, he would forced the battle into a tiebreak. But he was at a disadvantage from as early as the 6th move after Caruana picked off a pawn from Gukesh’s army with his knight on the f5 square. Gukesh responded with an inaccuracy: he should have picked off Caruana’s defenseless pawn on a2 with his bishop. Instead, he opted to pressure Caruana’s knight with his g file pawn, trying to kick it off. (The world champion played 6… g6?!, which the engine said was an inaccuracy while 6… Bxa2 was the best choice). Story continues below this ad Gukesh played another inaccuracy on the 17th move (17… c5?! Instead of 17… Nd7, which the computer said was the best move.) One …

Gukesh’s Freestyle Chess woes continue as world champion loses game 1 of quarters to Fabiano Caruana

Gukesh’s Freestyle Chess woes continue as world champion loses game 1 of quarters to Fabiano Caruana

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Gukesh Dommaraju’s wretched form at the Weissenhaus leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour continued as the world champion lost the first game of the quarter-final to Fabiano Caruana with white pieces on Sunday. Gukesh will have a chance to level on Monday when the two players play the second game of the quarter-final with colours reversed. Gukesh played nine games in the rapid time control before Sunday — one game each against all the other players in the field — but did not manage to win a single game. Gukesh had just about snuck into the quarter-finals of the Weissenhaus event after finishing ahead of Vladimir Fedoseev and Levon Aronian in the standings. Only eight players out of the 10 made it to the knockout stages after the rapid portion. Story continues below this ad Gukesh was expected to do better in the classical game on Sunday, considering he thrives in the longest time control event. But Sunday’s defeat to Caruana means he has just one game to save his campaign. READ MORE: …

Gukesh is new world no 3 after Praggnanandhaa beats Fabiano Caruana

Gukesh is new world no 3 after Praggnanandhaa beats Fabiano Caruana

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Gukesh is now the world no 3 in the FIDE ratings charts after his draw against China’s Wei Yi in the 11th round of the Tata Steel chess tournament coupled with Praggnanandhaa’s defeat of Fabiano Caruana. Over the course of the past 11 games in the Tata Steel chess tournament, world champion Gukesh’s rating has gone up by 16 rating points. He is currently rated at 2793, just one point off his career best rating of 2794 which he achieved in October 2024. With just two rounds remaining in the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Gukesh is currently leading the masters standings with Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattarov half a point behind in joint second spot. Story continues below this ad Gukesh is playing in his first event after becoming the youngest world champion in history last month where he defeated Ding Liren in Singapore. With India’s top-ranked player Arjun Erigaisi woefully out of sorts at the Tata Steel event and dropping 33 points to slide down to sixth spot, Gukesh also became …

Gukesh beats Leon Luke Mendonca to secure lead with 4 rounds to go

Gukesh beats Leon Luke Mendonca to secure lead with 4 rounds to go

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With just four rounds remaining at the Tata Steel chess tournament, the reigning world champion Gukesh D has ensured that he is in pole position to win the event known as the Wimbledon of Chess. The 18-year-old Gukesh defeated his contemporary Leon Luke Mendonca in Round 9 at the season-starting chess event in the quaint Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee in a battle lasting just 43 moves. This is the first event Gukesh is competing in after becoming the youngest world champion in history of chess by defeating Ding Liren in Singapore last month. So far after nine games, Gukesh is yet to lose, winning four games and drawing the others. This is in sharp contrast to the fate of Arjun Erigaisi, who came into the event rated 2801, but has not won a single game at the event. Tuesday’s win ensures that he will go into tomorrow Round 10 as the leader of the masters section standings. Praggnanandhaa, the other Indian who was leading the standings coming into round 9, is currently locked …

Gukesh beats Vincent Keymer, who helped him become world champion last month

Gukesh beats Vincent Keymer, who helped him become world champion last month

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After an almighty grind of over six hours, Gukesh defeated Vincent Keymer in the fifth round of the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee on Wednesday. The win makes Gukesh the new India no 1 (and the world no 4) in the live ratings, which are updated in real-time. Keymer was part of Team Gukesh last month as the Indian became the youngest world champion in the history of chess by defeating Ding Liren. At the World Championship in Singapore, Gukesh’s strategy was to tire out his opponent Ding by extending matches as long as possible. That seemed to be the strategy employed by Keymer in the game on Wednesday against Gukesh. The German grandmaster was in an inferior position on the board from the middle game itself, with Gukesh a pawn up, but rather than resigning, he kept playing on until the 72nd move, where Gukesh’s victory was inevitable. When the resignation did come, Keymer’s clock was whittled down to mere seconds and he was pawn up but Gukesh had an additional …

‘Don’t care who’s in front… business as usual’

‘Don’t care who’s in front… business as usual’

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The ongoing Tata Steel chess tournament in the Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee will see a reunion of sorts for Gukesh and two of his seconds, who helped him become the youngest world champion in history by defeating Ding Liren in Singapore last month. The 14-player masters field at the prestigious Tata Steel tournament — called the Wimbledon of Chess — will see Gukesh face players like Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi. But the event also sees Gukesh take on two of his seconds for the World Chess Championship last month — Gukesh will face Vincent Keymer in Round 5 (Wednesday) and Pentala Harikrishna in Round 7 (Saturday). Asked if the clashes against his seconds would be ‘special games’, the teenager said: “Once I get to the board, in general I don’t really care about the opponent, whether it’s a good friend or anyone. It will be business as usual. We have developed a close bond over the year. I’m glad they’re playing in this tournament.” The 18-year-old said that he is currently working with …

How Gukesh won 1st game as chess world champion after finding escape route vs Anish Giri

How Gukesh won 1st game as chess world champion after finding escape route vs Anish Giri

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Anish Giri slumped on the backrest of his chair and stayed there for a while. Then, he hunched over and planted a palm on his forehead in a universally accepted sign of anguish. He’d just spent most of the first round game at the Tata Steel chess tournament forcing his opponent, the newly-minted world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, into a corner. Just when checkmate seemed inevitable, with Gukesh running out of options — and out of time on the clock to think — Anish Giri made a blunder that will haunt the attic of his mind for years to come. In one hasty move of the wrist, Anish Giri had handed his 18-year-old opponent a get-out-of-jail-free card. Gukesh, who won the world championship last month on a similar blunder from his opponent Ding Liren, is not one to refuse gifts across the board. The 18-year-old from Chennai only landed in the Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee for the tournament on Saturday morning after receiving the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award from President Droupadi …