Chess | 'Shocking' - Magnus Carlsen takes another swipe at Gukesh

A time aft having an unthinkable Rapid event, Classical World Champion Dommaraju Gukesh saw a melodramatic freefall connected the archetypal time of the Blitz lawsuit astatine the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Chess Tournament successful Zagreb connected Saturday.The 19-year-old managed conscionable 1.5 points from 9 rounds successful the Blitz lawsuit arsenic helium mislaid 7 of his 9 games.

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Gukesh's lone triumph came against World No. 3 Fabiano Caruana.R Praggnanandhaa, the different Indian successful the fray, had a mixed time wherever helium scored 4.5 to gaffe to 4th successful the wide standings with 13.5 points. He ended his time connected a precocious with a triumph implicit chap countryman Gukesh successful the ninth (and final) round.

With a people of 7.5/9 connected the opening time of the SuperUnited Blitz, Magnus Carlsen has present emerged arsenic the sole person going into the last day."Obviously, the people is shocking—and from what I could see, the games weren't precise bully either," Carlsen said of Gukesh's performance.

"The bully happening for him is that it could not person gone immoderate worse. It's ne'er casual to person an overnight pb successful these tournaments; 4 points implicit maine and 3 implicit Duda is simply a lot."But it doesn't consciousness similar that overmuch erstwhile you don't person the experience. So acold it's been poor, but hopefully for his involvement helium tin calm down and play with a antithetic cognition tomorrow—because present helium doesn't person thing to lose, really."

Gukesh was astatine his premier successful the accelerated section, wherein helium won arsenic galore arsenic six games, including 1 against Carlsen, but the Indian was mode beneath par successful the blitz, which saw him losing six games connected the opening time of the fastest mentation of the game.

Standings aft circular 9 (blitz)

Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 17.5); 2. Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Pol, 16); 3. D Gukesh (Ind, 15.5); 4. Wesley So (USA, 14.5); 5. R Praggnanandhaa (Ind, 13.5); 6-7. Alireza Firouzja (Fra), Fabiano Caruana (USA) 13 each; 8-9. Anish Giri (Ned), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb) 11 each; 10. Ivan Saric (Cro, 10).