The world champion of Gukesh and the American GM Hikaru Nakamura played a draw of 59 movements in match 1 of their classification match from the 5th to day 5 of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Event in Weissenhaus.
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The race without victory of Gukesh Domomilju during the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour event in Weissenhaus, Germany, continued on Tuesday with the reigning world champion held at a draw of the World 2 Hikaru Nakamura. Gukesh and Nakamura chose to shake hands after 59 movements – the longest match of day 5 of the event at Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxy Resort in which the Indian played with black pieces.
It was the second time that the 18 -year -old Indian Master had had Nakamura in a draw in the current event; The two stars had previously chosen to shake hands after 38 movements during the tournament round scene, in which matches had been played in rapid format.
Tuesday’s meeting between Gukesh and Nakamura was the first match of the 5th-8th place qualifiers, the two players clashed on Wednesday, although inverted colors.
As for the semi-finals, Keymer kept the German flag flying high with a sensational victory in the world n ° 1 Magnus Carlsen, who had beaten Nodirbek 2-0 in the neighborhoods. The evaluation bar fled to Keymer after the five -time world champion Carlsen decided to advance his pawn (C6) during his 37th blow, with the German response (QA3) more position on the board. Carlsen would only resign two movements later.
Keymer finds the blow to kill and won the first match against Carlsen! He will need a draw tomorrow to win the match.https: //t.co/k1Ual5RQE3#Freestylechess pic.twitter.com/tvczocshgm
– Chess24 (@ chess24com) February 11, 2025
As for the other semi-final, Fabiano Caruana and Javokhir Sindarov played a dead end which lasted 51 movements.
Gukesh’s hopes to reach the semi-finals were destroyed with consecutive defeats against the GM American GM Caruana in the quarter-final, the Indian resigning in 40 and 18 movements respectively in matches 1 and 2.
Nakamura, meanwhile, had lost against the director general Ouzbékistan Sindarov, who was not even part of the original programming and was only included after the Indian legend Viswanathan Anand with the event. Their quarter-final entered shooting breakdown after the end of the two games by a draw, Sindarov, ultimately in force of 2.5-1.5.
During the other classification match of the 5th and 8th place, Alireza Firouzja and Nodirbek Abdusattorov played a draw of 43 movements in which the latter played with white pieces. Firouzja had finished in addition to the ranking at the end of the round scene, but was eliminated in the neighborhoods after a defeat against the German Grand Master Vincent Keymer.
The winner of the Battle of Firouzja-Nodirbek faces the winner of Gukesh vs Nakamura for fifth place later this week while the losers are fighting for seventh.
