Three days after staving off the spirited problem of the 14-year-old Turkish phenom, Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, Gukesh Dommaraju, the youngest world champion in chess historical past, succumbed to defeat to Abhimanyu Mishra within the fifth spherical of the FIDE Grand Swiss match in Samarkand. The Indian-origin American chess participant, who’s already within the document books because the youngest participant to turn into a grandmaster in chess historical past, now has one other declare: on the age of 16, he’s now the youngest participant in historical past to ever defeat a reigning world champion in a classical sport.
In a outstanding sport performed out in Uzbekistan, Gukesh was compelled to fire-fight for his life from the thirteenth transfer onwards after a puzzling determination to push his g pawn to g4 which was to be the beginning of his troubles. Within the center sport, by the twentieth transfer, it appeared just like the 19-year-old from Chennai had managed to drag off considered one of his trademark rescue acts. However Gukesh was in hassle as soon as once more by transfer 37 in opposition to Mishra, and regardless of attempting exhausting to get out of jail like he has performed on quite a few events prior to now yr, Gukesh was not capable of keep away from a resignation on the 61st transfer.
World champion Gukesh Dommaraju seems to be on as Abhimanyu Mishra contemplates his subsequent transfer within the fifth spherical of the Grand Swiss chess match in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (PHOTO: FIDE through Michal Walusza)
Abhimanyu Mishra’s rise
The victory over Gukesh got here simply in the future after Mishra had annoyed Praggnanandhaa, one other member of India’s golden prodigal technology, regardless of being a pawn down earlier than directing the sport to a peaceable draw. It’s doubtless that on Tuesday, Mishra is drawn to play the third member of India’s golden gen, Arjun Erigaisi.
Despite the fact that I gained, it doesn’t really feel as pleasing as my earlier video games within the match. It wasn’t a really clear sport
Mishra, although, stated he was not totally happy by his victory over Gukesh.
“Despite the fact that I gained, it doesn’t really feel as pleasing as my earlier video games within the match. It wasn’t a really clear sport,” Mishra advised FIDE in an interview after his win. “However the match goes higher than I may have probably imagined. If I sustain this type I’ve a really actual probability of successful the match. Yesterday too, I made some errors in opposition to Pragg. However I by no means felt like I used to be inferior to those gamers (Gukesh and Pragg). I feel I’m at par with them.”
Indian-origin American grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra within the sport in opposition to world champion Gukesh. (PHOTO: FIDE through Michal Walusza)
With gamers like Mishra and Erdogmus, the FIDE Grand Swiss has given the chess world a glimpse of the following gen of stars who will quickly begin difficult the present period of prodigies like Gukesh, Arjun, Pragg and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
Even by the same old requirements of chess, the place younger prodigies are consistently changing into elite gamers at youthful and youthful ages each passing yr, Mishra is an outlier. The story goes that he was taught the game by his father earlier than he was even three years previous. Whereas he grew up in New Jersey, his early profession was formed by Indian grandmasters like Magesh Chandran (India’s twelfth grandmaster) and Arun Prasad Subramanian (India’s 18th grandmaster).
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How Gukesh misplaced to Abhimanyu Mishra
Enjoying with black items, Gukesh’s determination to play 12…g4 within the sport in opposition to Mishra left even a legend like Judit Polgar baffled. She spent a substantial period of time on the commentary questioning out aloud what the world champion was pondering.
INTERACTIVE: Gukesh vs Abhimanyu Mishra
“What I’m shocked by is that if taking part in g4 is a mistake, then how is it attainable that Gukesh performed it? It must be a part of his opening prep. That’s why it’s very complicated,” Polgar stated on the Chess.com livestream. “I might very very like to know what’s occurring in Gukesh’s head. From one viewpoint, it should be house prep. On the identical time it looks like it’s a really dangerous one. It’s very controversial to see what’s taking place and seeing the analysis of the board. It’s actually, actually shocking that Gukesh didn’t play 12.h4, which was the most effective transfer, and went for g4. Perhaps there are some solely strikes after this one, which aren’t human strikes. So that they’re not apparent in any respect.”
I might very very like to know what’s occurring in Gukesh’s head. From one viewpoint, it should be house prep. On the identical time it looks like it’s a really dangerous one. It’s very controversial to see what’s taking place
Simply two strikes after the pawn push from Gukesh, Mishra had managed to sneak considered one of his personal pawns on the seventh rank — one rank from promotion, which meant that Gukesh must spend the remainder of the sport mulling the right way to neutralise the pawn and retaining a significant piece occupied as sentry to forestall it from reaching the eighth rank. Whereas Gukesh was a knight up at one stage, he was 4 pawns down.
And simply when he thought that the darkish clouds of woe had handed over his items by the twentieth transfer, a few reckless hops together with his knight handed Mishra the benefit once more. This time, he didn’t falter, discovering one good transfer after one other till the world champion resigned.
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Abhimanyu Mishra [ELO: 2611] vs Gukesh D [ELO: 2767]
[Opening: Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Normal]
The ultimate board place of the Spherical 5 sport between world champion Gukesh Dommaraju and Abhimanyu Mishra on the FIDE Grand Swiss match. (Picture courtesy: Lichess)1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 a6 7. O-O d6 8. c3 Ba7 9. Nbd2 g5 10. Bg3 Nh7 11. d4 h5
12. dxe5?! {Inaccuracy. h4 was greatest}
12… g4?? {Blunder. h4 was greatest}
13. exd6 gxf3 14. dxc7 Qe7 15. Nxf3 Bg4 16. h3 Be6 17. Bd6 Qd7 18. Bxe6 Qxe6 19. e5 Kd7
20. Nd4?? {Blunder. Kh1 was greatest}
20… Bxd4 21. cxd4 Qd5 22. Qxh5 Nf6 23. Qf5+ Qe6 24. Qxe6+ fxe6 25. f4 Nd5 26. f5 exf5 27. Rxf5 Nxd4 28. Rf7+ Ke6 29. Raf1 Rhg8 30. g4 Nb5 31. Rh7
31…Rg6? {Mistake. Rh8 was greatest}
32. Rff7? {Mistake. Rd1 was greatest}
32… Rc8 33. Rd7 Rh6 34. Rhg7 Rxh3 35. a4 Nd4 36. Bc5
36… Ne2+?? {Blunder. Rd3 was greatest}
37. Kf1
37… Nef4? {Mistake. Rxc7 was greatest}
38. Bd4 Rf3+ 39. Ke1 Nd3+ 40. Kd2 Nxe5 41. Bxe5 Kxe5 42. Rg5+ Ke6 43. Rgxd5 Rb3 44. R7d6+ Ke7 45. Rd7+ Ke6 46. R5d6+ Ke5 47. Rd3 Rxb2+ 48. Kc1 Rh2 49. g5 Kf5 50. R3d5+ Ke6 51. R5d6+ Ke5 52. Rd2 Rh1+ 53. Kb2 Kf5 54. Rg7 Rhh8 55. Rf2+ Ke5 56. g6 Rh4 57. Rgf7 b5 58. axb5 axb5 59. g7 Rb4+ 60. Kc3 Rc4+ 61. Kb3Abhimanyu Mishra wins vs Gukesh D
World champion Gukesh Dommaraju walks within the taking part in corridor throughout his spherical 5 sport in opposition to Abhimanyu Mishra on the FIDE Grand Swiss chess match in Samarkand. (PHOTO: FIDE through Michal Walusza)
Pragg, Divya lose, Arjun wins
Gukesh was not the one one from India to undergo defeat on Monday. Pragg misplaced to German grandmaster Matthias Bluebaum, who’s rated greater than 100 ELO factors under him. Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agrawal additionally endured defeats.
Whereas Gukesh and Pragg each misplaced, Arjun Erigaisi managed to defeat British grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov to remain inside touching distance of the highest of the leaderboard with the half-way stage of the match in sight. The day noticed many of the different Indian gamers draw their video games. This included the 2 defending champions Vaishali Rameshbabu and Vidit Gujrathi moreover gamers like Harika Dronavalli, Leon Luke Mendonca, Nihal Sarin, Harikrishna Pentala, Raunak Sadhwani, Aditya Mittal and SL Narayanan.