Apr 18, 2025 04:39 PM IST
A former second of Magnus Carlsen despatched an enormous warning to India No. 1 D Gukesh.
Since turning into the youngest-ever world champion in historical past, D Gukesh’s victory in Singapore final yr has been consistently downplayed by some grandmasters, which embody Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. Now Norwegian GM Jon Ludvig Hammer has joined the bandwagon and questioned Gukesh’s historic achievement.
Chess grandmaster and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju competes throughout of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Paris.(REUTERS)
Hammer was Carlsen’s second when he beat Viswanathan Anand to develop into world champion for the primary time in 2013. Talking to Take Take Take, Hammer felt that even Gukesh is the reigning champion, his challengers are on the identical degree as him.
“It would be great for chess if Gukesh actually managed to keep his title now for prolonged period of time,” he mentioned.
“We are now in a potential situation where the challengers and the champion are roughly the same strength which could mean that we see the title hopping from player to player and that I think is not a good thing.”
‘I liked it when we had the Karpov, the Kasparov, the Carlsen…’
Hammer then went on to put some examples and felt that Gukesh must maintain onto the title. “I liked it when we had the Karpov, the Kasparov, the Carlsen, where there was one guy who was just clearly better than others, because it lends the title so much legitimacy,” he added.
Gukesh had a poor run in Paris lately, as he completed backside of the standings within the second leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. In the meantime, he was winless in Weissenhaus too and got here eighth.
Carlsen gained the Paris occasion, as he beat World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura within the remaining, and in addition took the Tour lead with 40 factors. The World No. 1 additionally collected the 300,000 USD prize cash.
The subsequent Freestyle Chess Grand Slam will likely be held in Las Vegas in July, and is scheduled to happen from July 15-19. The Paris occasion additionally noticed Fabiano Caruana end in third spot, after defeating Vincent Keymer within the playoff. India’s Arjun Erigaisi took fifth place, adopted by Ian Nepomniachtchi in seventh.
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