Although he has failed to take his race without a victory the seventh and the penultimate day of the Freestyle Chess Freestyle Slam event in Weissenhaus, D Gukesh posted the kind of grain against Alireza Firouzja Who had helped him triumph in the Fid World Championship in December.
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Gukesh Domomraju failed to take his race without a victory during the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in Weissenhaus on Thursday. However, the way he held Alireza Firouzja in a draw, refusing to give up even on the brink of a defeat, recalled the fighting spirit which had helped him win the Fid World Championship in December.
Gukesh is currently faced with the Grand Iranian-French Master Firouzja in the match which will decide which players will end respectively seventh and eighth in the event to 10 players. Thursday, the seventh and penultimate day of competition at the Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort, the match 1 of the Gukesh-Firouzja lasted 91 movements before the two players shake hands and decided to divide a point.
However, Gukesh, playing with black pieces, had almost conceded an entire point to his 21 -year -old opponent at a given time. The two players were in terms of mostly level in the first 25 movements. However, the evaluation bar began to gradually bow to Firouzja as the game progressed, especially after giving a check by the King of Gukesh in the 40th blow with his Tour on F7.
Gukesh, however, received a lifeline after Firouzja lost the two towers by the 59th blow, capturing the second with his bishop with a dark square (F8), with which he would give a check to the white king shortly after. The 18 -year -old Indian then did enough to keep his king sheltered from the Firouzja knight, and still led the game to a draw with a series of repetitive movements.
Homeboy Keymer on Fairytale Triumph Verge in Weissenhaus
The penultimate day of the event also witnessed another act of giant killing of the German Grand Master Vincent Keymer while he was beating Fabiano Caruana in match 1 of the final, putting himself in pole position to be Crowned champion of the opening event of the Grand Slam Freestyle Chess.
Keymer, who was part of the Gukesh team during his world championship battle against Ding Liren in Singapore, had previously beaten the number 1 of the world n ° 1 and the free chess co-founder Carlsen 1.5- 0.5 in the semi-finals after the latter resigned in 39 movements in the game in play in game in match in game in game in match in game in game in match in match in match in match in match in match in match match In match match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match match In match match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match match In match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match in match match in match In match in match. 1 and 1
Thursday, world n ° 4 n ° 4, which had eliminated Gukesh 2-0 in the quarter-final, the second classic match ending in 18 movements, raised the white flag before it could make its 33rd movement.
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Carlsen, on the other hand, bounded from the defeat of the shock in the semi -finals by beating the Jakhovir Sindarov – who himself had the inspiring history in Weissenhaus – in 28 movements in match 1 of their playoffs in third place.
In the playoffs of fifth place, the world champion in the world and the world champion Fischer, Hikaru Nakamura, collected a full point against Nodirbek Abdusattarov, who fought in 62 movements while playing with pieces white.
