Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Weissenhaus Highlights: D Gukesh ends the scene from La Ronde to Weissenhaus without a single victory, undergoing a defeat of 46 movements against Magnus Carlsen in the last round to finish with 3.5 points gracked with seven prints and two losses. However, that is enough for him to go to the next round. Follow our blog live for the latest updates.
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Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Recaps Weissenhaus Day 2: After having collected a hatch of prints against Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer and Vladimir Fedoseev, D Gukesh found himself in front of Magnus Carlsen in the ninth and last round of the Round Robin scene, facing the world n ° 1 for the first times since his champion world crown world crown. Gukesh, however, ended up undergoing his second defeat of the tournament after having made an error in his 42nd move not collecting a single victory so far.
Freestyle chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Weissenhaus Day 2 protruding facts
Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Weissenhaus Day 2 protruding facts: D Gukesh ends the second day with three consecutive games followed by a defeat against Magnus Carlsen
Freestyle chess Grand Slam Tour Weissenhaus Live: The world champion GUKESH DIMAMMAJU will aim to win his first victory in the Grand Chelem tour of the Freestyle chess on the 2nd day of the event in Weissenhaus. GUKESH is currently on tie on two points with Magnus Carlsen, world n ° 1, n ° 2 Hikaru Nakamura and the German Grand Master Vincent Keymer.
It was a mixed beginning for the lucrative tour, which is played at Freestyle alias Fischer Random Format, for the 18 -year -old Indian GM. Gukesh started the day with a draw of 96 movements against Nodirbek Abdusattorov before suffering a defeat of 27 movements against the Iranian-French GM Alireza Firouzja. Gukesh, however, avoided finding himself on the losing side in the rest of the day by collecting a hat -trick of prints.
The world No. 4, Fabiano Caruana ended the day with a joint head with Uzbekistan GM Javokhir Sindarov, which had been included in the alignment to replace the Indian legend Viswanathan Anand. Caruana and Sindarov ended the day with 4.5 points out of five while Firouzja was in third place with 3.5 points.
It was also a mixed day for the five -time world champion Carlsen, who started the day with a convincing victory on Nakamura in the main event of the day. Carlsen would respond in style to a loss against Caruana with a commanding victory over Keymer. The Norwegian, however, would end up undergoing rare consecutive losses against Vladimir Fedoseev and Sindarov to slip into fifth place on the table.
