Fabiano Caruana from the USA during the first Norway Chess game in the FinanSparken in Stavanger in Norway, Monday 26 May 2025. (Carina Johansen/NTB via AP) Fabiano Caruana in the world 3 made a courageous statement about the 19 -year World Championship Gukesh and other Indian grandmothers and called them “not scary” after the Norwegian chess tournament.“These Indian players are very strong. I think we’ll compete for a while for more or less the same conditions. But I don’t consider them scary yet. He said Caruana on his podcast C-Squared.“When I play Arjun or Gukesh, I have this feeling – not only on the basis of this Norwegian chess tournament, but on many events – that I can really play them and get a lot of winning chances.”
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“I don’t think they can play me in the same way. Although they get chances of winning, then it will come to other factors. That’s my honest opinion.“It’s not about playing them. They can surely overcome me in different ways.At the recently finished Norwegian chess tournament, Caruan Gukesh defeated the last day and crushed the hopes of the Indian teenager to win the title.
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Caruana later explained that despite Indian miracles, such as Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi, which recently occurred well, the shift in the global chess hierarchy in the near future is unlikely because the Indians have not yet achieved full potential.“If Levon Aronian, who is 10 years older than me, competes with the same conditions with these young boys – or hikar, who is five years older and still seems stronger than most of them – why assume that he will soon take over?Magnus Carlsen continued to win his seventh title in Stavanger, while Caruana in second place. Hikaru Nakamura finished fourth, before Arjun Erigaisi.
