D Gukesh leads the Super United Rapid and Blitz tournament with wins including Magnus Carlsen. (Figure: Grand Chess Tour/X) D Gukesh, the World Champion, showed his bravery by ensuring another impressive victory against world 1 Magnus Carlsen at Super United Rapid and Blitz Chess Tournament in Zagreb, Croatia. For the second time, Gukesh forced Carlsen to resign. This time, however, there were no animated walks that filmed the table.This victory against Carlsen on Thursday described Gukesh’s fifth consecutive victory in the tournament and earned him 10 points out of the possible 12.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!“Beathing Magnus is always strange.Carlsen’s resignation came after 49 movements. Norwegian admitted that he did not play well and attributed Gukesh that he not only defeated him, but also covered five victories in a row.“I played badly the whole tournament and this time I was punished properly. I had a very, very nice position, but he had a chance to open this position. Then I did it so well. I found a lot of really good movements. I had a chance to save, draw, I thought,” Let’s play. ““I played badly, but all the recognition of Gukesh. He plays well and also takes his chances.”“Now he’s doing incredibly well. It’s a long way to the tournament, but winning five games in a row is no average performance.”
Magnus Carlsen responds during his game against D Gukesh at the Super United Rapid and Blitz in Zagreb, Croatia. (Figure: Grand Chess Tour/X)
With the three wheels remaining in the fast section, Gukesh leads two points ahead of the Polish Duda Jan-Krzysztof. Wesley SO from the United States has a third place with seven points, one point in front of Carlsen, Anish Giri from Holland and local player Ivan Saric.R Pragnanandhaa shares seventh place with American Fabiano Caruana, both on five points. French Alireza Firouzja takes ninth position with four points, while Uzbekistani nodirbek Abdusattorov lies in tenth place with three points.Garry Kasparov CARLSEN questionsGukesh played with black pieces and secured an unforgettable victory against Carlsen in a format in which he allegedly struggles. Despite the Norwegian great gain, the obvious advantage with the opening of his king has found effective movements against.The game saw Carlsen exchanged two small pieces for the tower and two advancing infantry. Gukesh, however, maintained his peace and earned a strategic mistake on Carlsen’s strategic mistake, as the time pressure was mounted, and secured the victory of 49 movements.“Now we can question Magnus’ domination,” said former world champion Garry Kasparov, who was in the commentary for the official stream. “It’s not just his second loss to Gukesh, it’s a convincing loss. It’s not a miracle … Or that Gukesh just benefits from Magnus’ terrible mistakes. It was a game that was a big fight. And Magnus lost.”At the beginning of that day, Gukesh also defeated Abdusattor and Caruan.
