GUKESH confronts Caruana in the quarterfinals do-gold-Firstpost

“I don’t know, it’s not like there was a huge qualitative difference. Of course, Gukesh has more experience in terms of play for the world championship, it’s a multitude of experience and win the world championship. And he played higher issues compared to Nodirbek Abdusattorov, “said Caruana.

“But Nodirbek Abdusattorov has advantages in terms of pressure on his opponent. Sometimes it does not work, like today, I think that playing a little too fast and maybe not so carefully, but sometimes it’s very dangerous, “said Caruana.

“So it’s a bit of a draw, you know?” I think that for me, Gukesh was a little more unknown than Nodirbek Abdusattorov in some respects, as if we had a lot of experience against each other, we played a match here last year, and I just decided Before if it was between … I was of course, that Nodirbek would still be there because I thought that Sindarov would probably not choose his compatriot.

“So I thought, okay, if it is between Nodirbek and Hikaru, I will probably choose Nodirbek, between Gukesh and Nodirbek, or Gukesh and Hikaru, I will probably choose Gukesh in this case,” said the man of 32 years old.