Apr 18, 2025 05:22 PM IST
D Gukesh needed to accept joint-Eleventh place on the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam and Arjun Erigaisi got here fifth. In the meantime, Magnus Carlsen gained the occasion.
D Gukesh’s Freestyle chess struggles continued as he completed in joint-Eleventh place with fellow Indian Vidit Gujrathi. In the meantime, R Praggnanandhaa needed to accept ninth spot. Arjun Erigaisi fared the most effective among the many Indian contingent on the Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam occasion, coming fifth.
D Gukesh opened up on his Freestyle Chess struggles and in contrast himself to Magnus Carlsen. In the meantime, among the many Indians Arjun Erigaisi had the most effective end in Paris.(Reuters/HT)
Talking on Chess.com’s stay stream of the Paris occasion not too long ago, Gukesh additionally opened up on his struggles within the Chess960 format. He stated, “I think the most challenging part for me in Freestyle Chess is that everybody can calculate and see tactics. But evaluating positions correctly, that is the most challenging, at least for me. Because a lot of positions and ideas are similar to standard chess but not exactly similar. And something which we think is good might not actually be good. Our intuition is simply not always correct in Freestyle.”
“Nobody knows the exact way. Some things that all the players are going, or at least I’m doing, is looking at the starting positions and think about the first few moves to learn some concepts or ideas and to solve some studies, because some positions are like studies.”
Not like Magnus or Vincent: D Gukesh
Evaluating himself to the likes of Magnus Carlsen or Vincent Keymer, he added, “I found it very hard to calculate and evaluate here because there is much more to calculate here than in standard chess. In standard chess, you see three or four options you know are good and you calculate. Here you just don’t know which ones are the good moves. Maybe the players who have this kind of feeling for where the pieces belong like Magnus or Vincent… not everybody has that.”
Carlsen reigned supreme in Paris, as he beat World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura within the last. In the meantime, American GM Fabiano Caruana needed to accept third place. The World No. 1 has additionally taken over as Tour chief, with 40 factors and 300,000 USD in prize cash.
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