While D Gukesh finished an eighth eighth disappointing after failing to win a single match over eight days of competition, Vincent Keymer was crowned Champion of the Weissenhaus leg of the Grand Chelem Freestyle Chess tour.
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On Friday, the opening event of the Grand Chelem tour of the Freestyle 2025 chess ended in Weissenhaus, Germany on Friday. While it was a fairytale Campaign for the likes of Vincent Keymer and Javokhir Sindarov, the formation Defeating Fabiano Caruana in the Final to be Crowned Champion in Home Crowd, it was a disappointing tournament for vaunted names such as magnus carlsen and hikaru nakamura , which ended respectively third and fifth.
For someone from Carlsen’s stature, finishing the second can sometimes be considered an upheaval. However, neither the Norwegian nor American Nakamura Master would have known the disappointment until Gukesh should have felt after having finished eighth on Friday, the last day of the competition.
Gukesh was at the top of the world barely two months ago after defeating the GM Ding Ding Readn 7.5-6.5 to be crowned the youngest world champion of all time. The feeling of 18-year-old failures has almost won prestigious consecutive events after finishing second at the chess of Tata in steel earlier this month, losing against compatriot R Praggnanandhaa in the Brais de Tie.
The world n ° 3, however, ended up not having won a single match over eight days of competition, ending with 11 draws and six defeats – including in match 2 of the seventh placement for Alireza Firouzja on Friday.
Keymer, on the other hand, has just removed what is surely the greatest triumph of his career, beating Firouzja in the quarterfinals before making an all-powerful by hitting Magnus Carlsen in the semi-finals. The German Grand Master, who was part of the team who organized his triumph of the world championship in Singapore, would then triumph Caruana in the final.
Sindarov also left a solid impression in the world of chess with his heroic at Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort, finishing fourth – in front of Gukesh and Nakamura – after being included in last minute replacement for Indian legend Viswanathan Anand.
How many money in Keymer, Gukesh and the other participants won?
Not only has Keymer jumped at the top of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 ranking by collecting 25 points on tour with his triumph in Weissenhaus, but he is also richer by US $ 200,000 thanks to his victory.
Gukesh, compared, raised $ 20,000 for his meager performance at Seaside Resort in northern Germany. He had recently won $ 1.3 million recently for his triumph in the world championship, and Weissenhaus’ revenues will no doubt look like a change of chump in comparison.
Here is the final ranking of the Freestyle chess event in Weissenhaus and the corresponding price:
1. Vincent Keymer ($ 200,000)
2. Fabiano Caruana ($ 140,000)
3. Magnus Carlsen ($ 100,000)
4. Javokhir Sindarov ($ 60,000)
5. Hikaru Nakamura ($ 50,000)
6. Nodirbek Abdusattorov ($ 40,000)
7. Alireza Firouzja ($ 30,000)
8. D GUKESH ($ 20,000)
9. Levon Aronian ($ 12,500)
10. Vladimir Fedoseev ($ 7,500)
