Vincent Keymer, who was from the D -GUKESH coache team during the 2024 world chess championship, beat the world number one of Magnus Carlsen to reach the final of the Freestyle Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess. He will face Fabiano Caruana in the final.
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Vincent Keymer was a man relieved after defeating Magnus Carlsen, world n ° 1 and reached the final of the freestyle chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Internship 1 Wednesday. After beating Carlsen in match 1 of the semi-finals, Keymer played a draw in the second match to win a memorable victory of 1.5-0.5 on the Norwegian legend.
In an essential scenario, the co-founder of the tournament, Carlsen, took the lead in match 2 of the semi-finals by sacrificing a pawn, but Keymer defended obstinately and managed to eliminate a draw.
Keymer was also part of the D -Gukesh team of coaches when the 18 -year -old Indian Master defeated Dingn and became the youngest chess world champion in December 2024.
“ Amazing realization to beat Magnus’
“Most of the time, I am relieved that I managed to survive this very difficult game and it is also for me personally an incredible achievement to beat Magnus in a match,” Keymer told Take Take after defeating Carlsen .
“I think it was above all a relief that after spoiling an excellent position, I still managed to survive,” added Keymer, speaking of his first thoughts after getting a draw.
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While commentators and experts said they were the best failures they had seen from Keymer, the 20 -year -old German master was not ready to get carried away. Keymer, however, admitted that he was satisfied with his progress so far.
“I think it is difficult to compare conventional failures and freestyle in terms of quality, but yes, I am quite satisfied with the quality of the game I show here.”
Focusing on the movements helped Keymer to beat Carlsen
Speaking of the way he kept his nerves and managed to refuse Carlsen a victory in match 2, Keymer said: “I was just trying to focus on movements because at some point, you don’t Can’t really allow yourself to think of all these things (lose), even if something is wrong after the match, you will have more than enough time to think about everything you missed or could have played or could have done Different, but at that time, you just have to focus fully on reading the best possible movements. Because I don’t think there was a single moment when I felt that the position was hopeless. »»
Keymer will now face Fabiano Caruana number three in the final.
