4 min learnUp to date: Jan 29, 2026 01:22 AM IST
World champion Gukesh Dommaraju lowered Yagiz Kaan Ergodmus to tears on the best way to defeating the 14-year-old prodigy in Spherical 10 of the Tata Metal Chess event.
Earlier than Wednesday, Erdogmus was having the event of his life at Wijk aan Zee, beating the likes of Arjun Erigaisi, Jorden Van Foreest and Thai Dai Van Nguyen apart from holding a few of the strongest stars of the present technology like Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Aravindh Chithambaram, Hans Niemann, Vincent Keymer and Praggnanandhaa R to attracts. Gukesh, however, had amassed three defeats in 9 rounds coming into Wednesday’s sport. The world champion had skilled struggling at Wijk over 9 rounds: he had Javokhir Sindarov on the ropes earlier than letting him escape with a attract spherical 1; he made a jaw-dropping, game-ending blunder in opposition to Abdusattorov in spherical 6 that he had loads of problem transferring on from, after which misplaced two extra video games to Anish Giri and Matthias Bluebaum. In contrast to his standard calm self, he was even so irked by speaking followers in spherical 1 that he shushed them after which requested the arbiter to speak to the followers.
However on Wednesday, it was Erdogmus’ flip to expertise heartbreak and frustration. The 14-year-old began brightly, together with his home-cooked opening prep serving to him achieve a 20-minute benefit on the clock over Gukesh by the seventh transfer. By the ninth transfer, Erdogmus had a half-an-hour edge over Gukesh. However then, he spent a whopping 50 minutes on his eleventh transfer. Erdogmus continuously finds himself in time bother in classical video games, and it’s solely his distinctive blitz prowess that rescues him again and again. On Wednesday, by the point he had made 21 strikes, he had solely 12 minutes left on his clock, that too in a event the place there is no such thing as a increment until transfer 40.
The sport seemingly turned on the twenty seventh transfer, when the engine confirmed that Gukesh blundered by enjoying bishop a6, however Erdogmus, in deep time bother by now, blundered again by capturing the a6 sq. with a rook.
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Had he opted for a unique transfer, such because the engine’s most well-liked rook to d1, Erdogmus might need even claimed a victory over the world champion. There have been additionally different strikes obtainable for Erdogmus, like enjoying queen to e8 which, Gukesh admitted in an interview afterward, was “profitable on the spot for his opponent.
“However fortunate for me, he didn’t discover it. We each missed it. I’ve had so many unfortunate moments right here… at all times good to get some luck again,” Gukesh advised Tata Metal Chess’ YouTube deal with in an interview with a chuckle.
From that transfer on, Erdogmus was scrambling to remain alive within the sport. By the point he resigned, he’d spent loads of time shielding his teary eyes from the remainder of the world. Gukesh, in the meantime, calmly paced across the enjoying corridor, seemingly decided to get in his 10,000 steps for the day.
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After the win, Gukesh was stunned to be advised that Erdogmus was 14.
“It was a pleasant feeling to be the youngest participant in tournaments I performed in. Now it’s not the case anymore. I’ve been actually impressed by him. What he’s been doing over the past one 12 months has been spectacular,” Gukesh chuckled earlier than joking. “At this time I needed to show him some classes.”
Eventually 12 months’s FIDE Grand Swiss, Gukesh had eased right into a profitable place over Erdogmus, earlier than the 14-year-old had scrapped his solution to a attract a irritating consequence for the world champion.
This was solely the third victory for the 19-year-old Indian teenager on the occasion in Wijk aan Zee. In the meantime, Arjun Erigaisi was handed a defeat by German grandmaster Vincent Keymer in spherical 10 on Wednesday. This was Erigaisi’s third defeat within the Wijk aan Zee occasion. Enjoying with black items, Erigaisi resigned in 41 strikes. In the meantime, R Praggnanandhaa drew his sport in opposition to Hans Moke Niemann.
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