Aimchess Rapid event: India’s 16-year-old Grandmaster D Gukesh has shocked the World champion Magnus Carlsen after he defeated him within the preliminary part of Aimchess Rapid on-line chess. Gukesh has now turn into the youngest participant to beat Carlsen since he has turn into the world champion.
The 16-year-old from Chennai beat the world No.1 with white items early on Monday to transfer up to the third place within the event behind Poland’s Jan-Krzystof Duda (25 factors) and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 23 factors) with 21 factors after the twelfth spherical. Gukesh’s 29-move dismantling of the world champion comes a day after his 19-year-old compatriot Arjun Erigaisi had posted a maiden win over the world champion.
Gukesh is 16 years 4 months 20 days whereas the earlier file earlier than his win was R Praggnanandhaa’s 39-move victory over Carlsen within the Airthings Masters in February. Pragg was 16 years 6 months and 10 days previous when he defeated the world No.1.
The Indian on his half was quoted as saying after the momentous win: “Beating Magnus is all the time particular, however I used to be not very pleased with that recreation.” Gukesh suffered a setback in spherical 10 when he misplaced to Duda however bounced again beautifully to beat Mamedyarova and Eric Hansen within the subsequent two rounds. Erigaisi has as many factors (21) as Gukesh and is in fourth because the race for the spot within the knockout part will get nearer.
Gukesh continued what has been an excellent 12 months to date for the younger Indian gamers as he grew to become the third one to put it throughout Carlsen after Praggnanandhaa and Erigaisi, who did so ultimately month’s Julius Baer Generation Cup on-line occasion. Even as Gukesh and Erigaisi underlined their expertise and scored wins, the opposite Indians-Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi, Aditya Mittal and P Harikrishna- failed to impress.
Mittal (12 factors) is in twelfth place. He upset Erigaisi in spherical 12 after having misplaced his three earlier video games to Anish Giri (the Netherlands), Richard Rapport and David Anton Guijjaro in rounds 9, 10 and 11 respectively.
Harikrishna is fifteenth after 12 rounds of play and is out of rivalry to attain the quarterfinals. To his credit score, he did, nevertheless, held Carlsen to a draw within the tenth spherical in a 76-move match. World champion Carlsen is within the fifth spot after having a quiet day.
