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World Chess Champion D Gukesh (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)
Indian chess prodigy D. Gukesh secured the accelerated rubric astatine the
Grand Chess Tour 2025
Rapid & Blitz tourney successful Zagreb, Croatia connected Friday, July 4, 2025. The 19-year-old reigning
World Champion
demonstrated singular resilience by bouncing backmost from an archetypal nonaccomplishment to clinch 5 consecutive victories, including a notable triumph against Magnus Carlsen, yet accumulating 14 points to assertion the apical position.
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Poland's Jan-Krzysztof Duda finished successful 2nd spot with 11 points, portion erstwhile satellite champion Magnus Carlsen secured 3rd presumption with 10 points. The tourney witnessed different Indian participant,
R. Praggnanandhaa
, who shared 4th spot with Fabiano Caruana, some scoring 9 points.
Gukesh's way to triumph included strategical draws successful the seventh and eighth rounds against Anish Giri and Ivan Saric respectively. He sealed his triumph with a triumph implicit Wesley So successful the last circular of the accelerated section.Quiz: Who's that IPL player? The Zagreb tourney represents the 3rd lawsuit successful the
Grand Chess Tour
2025 calendar, pursuing the completion of tournaments successful Poland and Romania during April and May. The contention operation continues with the blitz conception scheduled for July 5 and 6, wherever players volition vie for the wide rubric based connected combined points from some accelerated and blitz sections.
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R. Praggnanandhaa has already established his beingness successful the Grand Chess Tour 2025 circuit with a triumph successful Bucharest, Romania, and a third-place decorativeness successful Warsaw, Poland. These performances item the beardown practice of
Indian chess players
successful planetary competitions. The Grand Chess Tour 2025 calendar includes 2 upcoming tournaments successful the United States scheduled for August. The last tourney of the bid volition instrumentality spot successful Brazil from September to October, featuring an expanded format that encompasses classic, rapid, and blitz sections.
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