Nakamura slightly ahead of Gukesh in the classification match – Firstpost

Freestyle chess Grand Slam Tour Weissenhaus Day 5 Live: The opening event of the Grand Chelem Freestyle Chess tour at Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort between its activities with the semi-finals which take place on Tuesday. Unfortunately for Indian fans, Gukesh Domomraju will not be semi-finals and the final.

Gukesh endured his worst exit during the current event since his crown world champion in Singapore in December. After having finished finalist at the Tata Steel chess tournament for the second consecutive year, losing to the star of Indian chess Rameshbabu praggnanandhaa in the Break of Tie, Gukesh ended up withdrawing from the Weissenhaus event in the quarter -finals without Only one victory.

Gukesh, however, can still get out of Germany on a somewhat happy note if he is able to record a victory in the 5th-8th classification game which will take place at the same time as the semi-finals and the final .

The 18 -year -old had finished on the round stage with seven draws and two defeats, losing his last match against Magnus Carlsen, world n ° 1. He would then undergo consecutive defeats against the US director general Fabiano Caruana in the quarter -final to finish a tournament without a victory.

While Gukesh resigned in 40 movements in match 1 after an error in his 25th blow, the second quarter -finish match ended even faster – with Chennai’s boy raising the white flag in just 18 movements, this who led to a rout for Caruana.

In the other quarter -finals, Magnus Carlsen launched Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2-0 while Javokhir Sindarov – which was included as a replacement of Viswanathan Anandand – continued its fairy tale race by beating the American GM Hikaru Nakamura 2.5-1, 5. Alireza Firouzja, who lost against German director general Vincent Keymer by 0.5-1.5, lost the semi-finals, who lost against GM Vincent Keymer.