D Gukesh reigned supreme on the World Chess Championship in Singapore, defeating defending champion Ding Liren in Singapore. The match reached the decisive 14th recreation, the place each Grandmasters started on equal footing, and it appeared prefer it was going in response to Liren’s plan, who was attempting to pressure out a tiebreaker. However a large blunder within the fifty fifth transfer noticed the Chinese language Grandmaster resign and concede to Gukesh.
D Gukesh will face Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen in 2025.
After changing into the youngest-ever world chess champion, Gukesh determined to skip the year-ending Fast and Blitz C’ships. In 2025, Gukesh has an action-packed schedule and is ready to face India chess legend Viswanathan Anand and even World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen.
Talking throughout an occasion organised by WestBridge Capital, Gukesh stated, “Yeah, 2025 will offer a very tough challenge. A lot of new and interesting tournaments are coming up. The world championship was in the past. I’m very happy about it and all the awards and receptions.”
“But now, I have started thinking about new goals, new tournaments and new ways to prepare. The goal, the approach will be the same, to give my best, to keep improving myself, and win as many tournaments as possible.
“So, I am looking forward to a fun year with a lot of learning, a lot of improvements and hopefully a lot of good results,” he added.
Gukesh will face Carlsen and Anand within the Germany leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025, which is able to happen from February 7-14. He will even tackle Carlsen at Norway Chess 2025. Gukesh will start his 2025 season on the Tata Metal Chess Event, which is able to happen within the Netherlands. The match will even function Anish Giri, Erigaisi, Fabiano Caruana, R Praggnanandhaa. Gukesh got here second final 12 months, with China’s Wei Yi coming first.
For Gukesh, it’ll even be about proving Carlsen fallacious after the Norwegian downplayed his World C’ship victory. In the meantime, Gukesh in response, despatched a public problem to Carlsen.
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