Fabiano Caruana said the reason he had chosen from Gukesh as an opponent in the quarter -final for the Weissenhaus leg of the Grand Slam tour of the 2025 Freestyle chess was due to the latter’s experience to play “ high stake games ”.
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The American Grand Master Fabiano Caruana explained his reason behind the choice of the world champion Domomilju Gukesh as his opponent in the quarter -final for the Weissenhaus leg of the Grand Chelem tour of the chess of 2025. Caruana said he had chosen The 18 -year -old because of his experience to play “high stakes games” which include his world chess championship in 2024 against Ding Liren in Singapore.
“ GUKESH has more game experience for the world championship ”: Caruana
While Caruana qualified for the quarter -finals after finishing third with six points, Gukesh, who has not yet won a match in the tournament, finished eighth with 3.5 points. “Well, the thing is that I have to choose someone, I could return a room, right?” But these are both super strong players, I mean, maybe Gukesh has around 2790, maybe Nodirbek Abdusattorov has around 2780, “Caruana said on the Take Take application after his victory at Gukesh during of the first quarter -final match.
“I don’t know, it’s not like there was a huge qualitative difference. Of course, Gukesh has more experience in terms of play for the world championship, it’s a multitude of experience and win the world championship. And he played higher issues compared to Nodirbek Abdusattorov, “he added.
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“But Nodirbek Abdusattorov has advantages in terms of pressure on his opponent. Sometimes it does not work, like today, I think that playing a little too fast and maybe not so carefully, but sometimes it’s very dangerous, “said Caruana.
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Caruana admitted that there was a blow between Gukesh and Nodirbek and said that if his choice was between Uzbekistan GM and Hikaru Nakamura, he would have chosen Nodirbek.
“So it’s a bit of a draw, you know?” I think that for me, Gukesh was a little more unknown than Nodirbek Abdusattorov in some respects, as if we had a lot of experience against each other, we played a match here last year, and I just decided Before if it was between … I was of course, that Nodirbek would still be there because I thought that Sindarov would probably not choose his compatriot.
“So I thought, okay, if it is between Nodirbek and Hikaru, I will probably choose Nodirbek, between Gukesh and Nodirbek, or Gukesh and Hikaru, I will probably choose Gukesh in this case,” said the man of 32 years old.
“ Victory is great ”: Caruana after beating gukesh in match 1 of the quarter -finals
Caruana was very satisfied with her victory over Gukesh on Sunday. Another victory for the American in the second quarter -final match on Monday will make the Indian teenager out of the Weissenhaus leg.
“Victory is great of course, especially in a game like this one where everything could have happened, I could certainly have lost if things did not go to me,” said Caruana.
“A draw and I would have been quite reasonably satisfied with, even if I became ambitious at a time when I dismissed her pawn with D5, Queen B4, it was of course an ambitious idea.
“I was not sure. I thought I could perhaps play more safe, but sometimes I have the impression that you should also take control of your own destiny, “added the chess player born in Florida.
