9-year-old Indian chess prodigy shocks Magnus Carlsen with a attract on-line match

In probably the most beautiful moments in chess in current instances, 9-year-old Aarit Kapil from Delhi got here very near defeating present world No. 1 and five-time world champion
Magnus Carlsen
in a web based chess match. The match was a part of an occasion known as the ‘Early Titled Tuesday,’ which was hosted on Chess.com.

9-year-old Indian shocks Carlsen

Aarit stunned everybody by placing Carlsen in deep trouble of their blitz sport. At one level, the Indian prodigy had a totally profitable place in opposition to the Norwegian legend. Nevertheless, with only some seconds left on his clock, Aarit couldn’t convert his benefit right into a win. The sport ultimately led to a draw.

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What makes this much more spectacular is that Aarit was enjoying the occasion from a lodge room in Georgia, the place he’s at present competing within the Underneath-10 World Chess Championship. He has already received each his video games within the first two rounds of the match and can play his third sport on Wednesday.

Carlsen had just lately mentioned that there isn’t a one on the planet proper now who appears good to succeed him as the subsequent smartest thing in chess, not even the present world champion D Gukesh. Carlsen’s remark got here after he received the Norway Chess 2025 in opposition to a few of the finest gamers on the planet, together with Gukesh and Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi.

Throughout the classical match in Norway,
Carlsen misplaced a match in opposition to Gukesh
regardless of being forward for more often than not within the sport. Nevertheless, the 34-year-old made an excellent comeback from that loss and went on to win the occasion, ending forward of American GM Fabiano Caruana and India’s Gukesh.

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Carlsen will subsequent be seen in motion within the Las Vegas leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam match, which is about to happen from 16 to twenty July.

Las Vegas Freestyle Chess lineup: Magnus Carlsen, Hans Niemann, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Arjun Erigaisi, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Leinier Dominguez, Parham Maghsoodloo, Vincent Keymer, Ian Nepomniachtchi, R Praggnanandhaa, Javokhir Sindarov, and Vidit Gujrathi.