India’s younger stalwart Grandmaster D Gukesh continued his nice run of type within the seventh spherical of the 2023 Norway Chess event, beating sole chief Fabiano Caruana within the Armageddon on Tuesday.
17-year-old Gukesh was stable within the Classical sport to play out a draw. Within the Armageddon, although he was misplaced within the queen endgame, he was in luck as Caruana ran out of time and misplaced the sport.
Time hassle is one thing that Caruana has been discovering tough all by way of this event. Although he gained his Classical sport on Monday in opposition to GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, he may’ve simply misplaced the match for taking too lengthy.
🇮🇳 GM Gukesh D continues his fantastic run as he put up a stable sport as Black within the classical section and drew in opposition to GM Fabiano Caruana! #NorwayChess
Within the armageddon, @DGukesh gained on time and is at the moment tied for fourth with 10.5/21. @norwaychess pic.twitter.com/ErHayFF6YL
— Chess.com – India (@chesscom_in) June 7, 2023
“The time management is such that after you get into time hassle you by no means get out and when it’s very difficult mainly you simply are uncontrolled. And I used to be absolutely uncontrolled, however in some way it labored out”, he mentioned after the sport on Monday.
The loss to Gukesh didn’t have an effect on the American’s place as sole chief with 14.5/21 adopted by Hikaru Nakamura 12.5/21. Nakamura defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in an exhilarating Armageddon in a forwards and backwards sport.
With the victory, Gukesh now moved to fifth place on the leaderboard with a rating of 10/21. Gukesh has had some robust performances at this event, even beating Dutch GM and winner of this yr Tata Metal Chess Anish Giri within the earlier spherical. He performs Aryan Tari on Thursday, with Wednesday being a relaxation day.
The discuss of the event has been five-time World Champion Magus Carlsen’s wrestle to win a Classical sport at this occasion. That winless streak continued on Tuesday as he drew the sport with Alireza Firouzja. Carlsen, who selected to not compete at this yr’s World Championships, was too good for Firouzja in Armageddon although. He’s at the moment languishing in seventh place with a rating of 9/21.
So leapfrogs to 3rd place
Nodirbek Abdusattorov suffered his second consecutive loss, third general in Classical video games at this occasion. This win allowed Wesley So to leap to the third spot within the standings 10.5/21.