Chesa legend Susan Polgar jumped to defense D Gukesh after Garry Kasparov downplayed the World Championship victory. Kasparov recently claimed that Gukesh could not be called the world’s strongest player because it is not better at the moment than Magnus Carlsen.
Chess legend further said that Gukesh is not even better than the stars in his same age group, Pointed to his defeat on r pragggnanandhaa in the first round of Sinquefield Cup by way of example. He also said that the Indian GM cannot be compared to as Ho, Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov or Bobby Fischer.
“Gukesh won Fair and Square, but you can hardly call him the strongest player in the world. I don’t want to sound offensive, but I think Magnus has ended the era of the classic world champions.
Polgar defends Gukesh: He’s a well -deserved world champion
Polgar took X to defend the 19 -year -old and say he was a deserved world champion and pointed out how he came out at the top of FIDE candidates, a tournament that had big stars like Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura.
Chess legend claimed that it was not Gukesh’s mistake, that Carlsen decided to leave his title. Polgar urged the chess community not to win Gukesh’s victory and had different standards for players.
“Gukesh is a well -deserved world classic champion, a period! Fide candidates have passed as eighteen -year -old, the youngest in the tournament, and came out in front of big stars like Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniatchi, Alireza Firouzja and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg And Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg and Pragg, it was not a community.
Gukesh became the World Champion in December last year when he defeated Ding Liren in the championship match. He became the youngest world champion in chess history with victory.
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Published on:
August 23, 2025
