Freestyle Grand Slam Chess: After rare disadvantage, Gukesh returns against Karuana

D. Gukesh’s file photo | Photo Credit: PTI

World champion D Gukesh cut off his work, as he looks for a comeback to return to the freestyle Grand Slam chess tournament in Hamburg against the USA Fabiano Caruana.

Gukesh suffered a rare shock in normal time control on Sunday, which lost to Caruana in the first game of the quarter -finals.

Indians are now under pressure to perform with their black pieces and attract with Caruana which has been dreaming of becoming world champions for some years.

The freestyle chess is built on about 960 random positions that transfer the initial position of the pieces from the base rank, while the pieces remain intact.

Legendary Bobby Fisher Fisher was the first to advocate the freestyle chess, and, given the support received by the new format, this could be a good future of the game.

Gukesh will have to work hard, as his initial options have already come under investigation, while a new performance needs to be made. In the initial game of Caruana quarters, defeat was almost staring, but would be watching the return game with great enthusiasm.

In the first game of the quarter, Gukesh was at the top of his game for the major part, when it was necessary, but the Indian middle game failed to find a queen sacrifice in the later stages of the Indian middle game, and her cost it very much Increased.

As it happened in the game, Karuana was in a hurry to take charge of the situation and did not return anything.

Meanwhile, the main hero behind the tour continued by Magnus Carlsen, from where he left and won a good win over Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan.

France’s Alirza Firouja lost to the Winner Kimar of Germany in the opener, and the irony is that his first round was elected by the winner of the qualifier event.

In the second game of the quarter, Uzbekistan’s Jawokhir Sindarov played a draw with Hikaru Nakamura, while in the jury inconsistent ninth place, American Levon Aaronian finally won his first game at the price of Vladimir Fedochev of Slovenia.