The world champion of Gukesh believes that even if he is happy to experience the Chess960 format, he will not take classic failures. GUKESH is currently in Germany in competition in the first stage of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour.
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The world chess world champion in Gukesh is currently participating in the highly discussed Freestyle chelem tour which launched in Weissenhaus, Germany, Friday, February 7). The tournament was marred by the controversies of their fight with the International Federation of Chess (Fide) on the use of the term “World Championship”.
Speaking about the controversy of Fid VS Freestyle chess, Gukesh said he was just happy to play chess regardless of the format and time control.
“I’m right there. I am happy to play any format, with any time control. I’m just trying to do my best at each game. For me, it’s just that I try to give the best of my failures and nothing else really matters. So, I just hope that there is more clarity in the world of chess and that everything is going well, but none of this really matters, I just want to play chess “, -It declared to Chessbase India.
“ Do not think that Ches960 will take classic failures ”: gukesh
The teenager was later questioned on comparisons between conventional failures and failure960. Gukesh said that although he is happy to experience Chess960, he does not think that the format will resume classic failures.
“I think 960 is nice as an experience, but I don’t see him taking classic failures. The cycle of the classical world chess championship will be much more important than 960, so I am happy to experience 960, “said Gukesh, who beat Dingn of China to win the 2024 world chess championship in Singapore last December.
While the failures of Freestyle, co -founded by Le Monde N ° 1 of Magnus Carlsen last year, intended to use the term “world championship” for its event, the faith of this saying only has the right to ‘Use the term. This led to freestyle failures to write an open letter criticizing Fide while Carlsen and the CEO of Fide Emil Sutovsky exchanged publicly.
Carlsen even accused the president of Fide, Arkady Dvorkovich, of “broken promises, of forcing the abusing players of power” and even demanded his resignation. Carlsen had even declared during an interview on the Take Take application that young players wanted to participate in the Freestyle Chess Tour.
However, the players were confused because they had to sign an exemption with Fide, otherwise they will not be allowed to participate in the faithful world championships.
The 10 best players, including Gukesh, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, participate in the German leg of the Grand Slam tour of the Freestyle failure. Gukesh ended the first day without a victory and is tied on two points with Carlsen and Nakamura.
