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Magnus Carlsen on World Champion Gukesh resigning after 18 moves against Fabiano Caruana: ‘He made a prudent decision’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen on World Champion Gukesh resigning after 18 moves against Fabiano Caruana: ‘He made a prudent decision’ | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen has called World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju’s decision to resign after just 18 moves in the second game of the quarter-finals against Fabiano Caruana a “prudent one” as the 18-year-old had no chance to make a comeback. “I think in these mini-matches a lot will hinge on a single game,” Carlsen told Take Take Take when asked about whether he was surprised that Caruana vs Gukesh match was so one-sided. “Yesterday’s game could have gone either way and today of course it was never very likely that Gukesh was going to come back and honestly I think he made a kind of prudent decision just resigning when he realised that he was not going to make a comeback. Just see it as a bit of a lost event in that sense. Story continues below this ad “He had his chance yesterday, he didn’t take it and then you move on.” Gukesh is still winless at Weissenhaus. He lost to Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen in the rapid section to decide the seeding for the …

Indian chess team on cusp of history after beating USA

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Both the Indian chess teams find themselves on the cusp of history-making gold medals in the open section and the women’s sections at the Chess Olympiad, the most prestigious team event in chess for national teams. Heading into Sunday’s final round of matches, both Indian teams are on top of the Olympiad standings, with the team in the open section defeating USA on Saturday, the top seeds heading into the tournament but who have been shaky heading into the home stretch. For India, Gukesh took down World No 2 Fabiano Caruana while Arjun Erigaisi defeated Leinier Dominguez Perez after another long marathon game to offset Praggnanandhaa’s loss to Wesley So. Vidit Gujrathi played out a draw against Levon Aronian. The Indian women’s team, who was in second place in Chess Olympiad standings coming into the 10th round, defeated a depleted version of China, which was missing all their top players like Tan Zhongyi, Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun and Lei Tingjie, who have been women’s world champions or contenders for the women’s world champion’s crown. While …

Indian chess teams on cusp of history

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Both the Indian chess teams find themselves on the cusp of history-making gold medals in the open section and the women’s sections at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, the most prestigious team event in the sport for national teams. Heading into Sunday’s final round of matches, both Indian teams are on top of the Olympiad standings at the time of going to press. In the open section India defeated the USA, the top seeds heading into the tournament but who have been shaky heading into the home stretch. Gukesh took down World No 3 Fabiano Caruana while Arjun Erigaisi defeated Leinier Dominguez Perez after another long marathon game to offset Praggnanandhaa’s loss to Wesley So. Vidit Gujrathi played out a draw against Levon Aronian. The Indian women’s team, who was in second place in Chess Olympiad standings coming into the 10th round, defeated a depleted version of China, which was missing all their top players like Tan Zhongyi, Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun and Lei Tingjie, who have been women’s world champions or contenders for the …