Finish of chess as we all know it, says Kramnik after Liren’s blunder

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Singapore, Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik was not impressed with the standard of chess on show throughout the World Championship match between D Gukesh and Ding Liren, and known as it the “end of chess as we know it.”

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Indian Grandmaster Gukesh on Thursday turned the youngest world chess champion at 18 years after beating title-holder Ding Liren of China within the 14th and final sport of a tense showdown right here.

After the match, Kramnik expressed his frustration over the sport’s high quality, calling a essential blunder by Ding Liren “childish”.

In his response, Kramnik wrote on ‘X’, “No comment. Sad. End of chess as we know it.”

In one other tweet, he mentioned, “Never yet has a WC title been decided by such a childish one-move blunder.”

Kramnik had additionally criticised the extent of play after sport six of the championship, calling it “weak”.

“Frankly, I am very disappointed by today’s game . Even Game 5 was not extremely high level, but today it was really — for a professional — it was really weak play from both players. It’s a very disappointing level,” he had mentioned.

The 49-year-old Russian was the Classical world chess champion from 2000 to 2006. In 2000, Kramnik defeated the legendary Garry Kasparov and have become the Classical world chess champion.

Earlier than Gukesh’s feat on Thursday, Kasparov of Russia was the youngest world champion when he received the title on the age of twenty-two, dethroning Anatoly Karpov in 1985.

Gukesh beat Kasparov’s report of twenty-two years, six months and 27 days.

The Indian secured the requisite 7.5 factors as in opposition to 6.5 of Liren after profitable the final classical time management sport of the 14-game match that appeared headed for a draw for many half.

As title winner, Gukesh will get a serious share of the USD 2.5 million prize purse.

Gukesh had entered the match because the youngest ever challenger to the world crown after profitable the Candidates match earlier this yr.

He’s the second Indian after the good Viswanathan Anand to win the worldwide title. Anand, a five-time world champion, had final held the title in 2013 earlier than happening to Magnus Carlsen.