Current World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju was handed a loss against Grand Master Magnus Carlsen. Despite the defeat in the last game of the round-robin stage, the 18-year-old went on to progress into the next stage of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Weissenhaus.
Magnus Carlsen went on to claim that it was a very decent game where Gukesh was very brave. But then when the time needed for Gukesh to be brave again, the young Indian champion retreated. This made him unable to hold his position and thus ended up losing the game.
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Magnus praises Gukesh despite winning encounter
“I think the game was very decent for a long time. I was very happy to get in this counter strike in the centre with e4, e5. I thought, I don’t know, I thought like my queen is controlling the diagonal, I always have these tricks with going rook e8 and then long castling and it felt like his position was a bit shaky,” Magnus told Take Take Take.
“So after that I was a bit disappointed because then the position was just equal and honestly after that I think it was just lack of experience on his part because he just took too many chances and then when it was time to be a little bit, he was really brave and then when it was time to be brave again he retreated but by the time he retreated it was very difficult to hold this position in practise and at that point I thought my winning chances were great,” Magnus added.
Gukesh went on to play 3 draws against Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer, and Vladimir Fedoseev. Following this he went on to face Magnus in the last game of the round-robin stage. With 3.5 points under his belt, he went on to progress to the next stage as it was enough for him.
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