“ It is not so simple ” – Firstpost

Gukesh Domomraju had a forgetable race during the opening event of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour in Weissenhaus, Germany, finishing 8th in the event of 10 players after having failed to win a single match on eight days of competition . The 18 -year -old, who had become the youngest world champion in the history of chess in December and almost won the Tata Steel chess tournament earlier this month scene.

GUKESH coach Grzegorz Gajewski, however, came to his defense after his disappointing campaign ended with a defeat in 30 strokes against Alireza Firouzja on Friday.

The American Grand Master Hikaru Nakamura had recently declared that the intuition of Gukesh, especially in the face of a time crisis, was his “greatest weakness”. Gajewski, however, responded to Nakamura’s statement that Gukesh needed to work on his intuition, but only in the format he had struggled last week.

“In 960, the calculation can be very misleading because you have to pay attention to the movements that you calculate.

“So, yes, he must improve his intuition. But by intuition, I mean the intuition Chess960. Because many movements that seem to intuitively well in conventional failures are only pure errors in 960, “said the Polish GM in response to a question on a live flow led by Chessbase India.

Gajewski continued by saying that adaptation to unpredictable format which is Chess960 will take some time because it has no “history” or “literature” as the classic format.

“I think it’s the biggest challenge for 960. It’s like we had no history here. There is no literature. Failures, normal failures have been developing for centuries. And here we have to speed up this with the engine. And it’s not that simple, ”added Gajewski.

Being the reigning world champion, Gukesh is an automatic qualifier for all the events of the Freestyle Grand Slam chess tour, and will therefore have the opportunity to rebound during the next event, which will take place in Paris in April.

Gukesh, however, will not be the only Indian action in the Parisian leg of the tour, because the world n ° 5 Arjun Erigaisi was also confirmed for the event.

And the failures of Freestyle, Gukesh will look forward to the failures of Norway – where he finds himself face to face with the five -time world champion Carlsen – as well as the World Cup of chess which will take place in India later this year.