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Classical World Champion, India’s D. Gukesh lost the second leg of the quarterfinal match against USA’s Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour in Hamburg, Germany on Monday. This loss resulted in Gukesh getting knocked out from the top-four race following his back-to-back losses in a two-legged quarterfinal to Caruana. The…
File photo of D. Gukesh | Photo Credit: PTI World champion D Gukesh will have his task cut out as he looks to stage a comeback against Fabiano Caruana of the USA in the Freestyle Grand Slam chess tournament in Hamburg. Gukesh suffered a rare setback in normal time control on Sunday, losing to Caruana…
The knockout stage of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour’s first event will begin on Sunday, February 9 with World Champion D Gukesh in action. The Indian GrandMaster will be facing USA’s Fabiano Caruana in the quarterfinals. According to a video on ChessBase India’s X account, the eight players remaining in competition – Levon Aronian…
World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signalling that he is gradually coming to terms with the new format. A brainchild of World’s number one Magnus Carlsen and German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner, the freestyle chess event marks the beginning of…
World Champion D. Gukesh played out a draw with Jorden van Foreest of Holland, while Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa beat Alexey Sarana of Serbia as the two Indians shared the lead after a thrilling day at the Tata Steel Masters Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. Praggnanandhaa notched up his third consecutive win to take his tally…
Grandmaster R Praggnanadhaa played out a solid draw with World champion D Gukesh in the eighth round of the Tata Steel Masters here. Playing the white side of a Berlin defense, Praggnanadhaa had slightly favourable position optically but Gukesh was always on guard to defend. It was in the early middle game that Gukesh sacrificed…
Newly-crowned world chess champion D Gukesh is looking forward to the day when the sport will become a part of the Olympic curriculum, which, he said, would take it to an altogether different level not just in India but across the world. The 18-year-old, who defeated China’s Ding Liren in Singapore recently to become the…
In mid-December, with the World Chess Championship match tied at 6.5-6.5 after 13 games, D. Gukesh and Ding Liren had seemingly fought each other to a standstill even in the 14th outing. Gukesh had started thinking about a potential tie-breaker when a rook blunder from the defending champion let in that ray of light the…
In mid-December, with the World Chess Championship match tied at 6.5-6.5 after 13 games, D. Gukesh and Ding Liren had seemingly fought each other to a standstill even in the 14th outing. Gukesh had started thinking about a potential tie-breaker when a rook blunder from the defending champion let in that ray of light the…
The 2024 edition of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships will take place at Wall Street, New York, from December 26 to 31. With interest in Indian chess at an all-time high following D Gukesh’s win in the World Chess Championship, hopes will be high for India’s top chess talents to compete against the…
