Freestyle Chess Grand Slam LIVE Rating: D Gukesh eyes first win on Day 2 at Weissenhaus after blended begin

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Weissenhaus LIVE: World champion Gukesh Dommaraju might be aiming to gather his first victory within the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour on Day 2 of the occasion in Weissenhaus. Gukesh presently is tied on two factors with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen, No 2 Hikaru Nakamura and German Grandmaster Vincent Keymer.

It was a blended begin to the profitable tour, which is being performed within the Freestyle a.okay.a. Fischer Random format, for the 18-year-old Indian GM. Gukesh started the day with a 96-move draw towards Nodirbek Abdusattorov earlier than struggling a 27-move defeat towards Iranian-French GM Alireza Firouzja. Gukesh, nevertheless, averted ending up on the dropping aspect within the the rest of the day by amassing a hat-trick of attracts.

World No 4 Fabiano Caruana ended the day in joint-lead with Uzbekistani GM Javokhir Sindarov, who had been included within the lineup as a alternative for Indian legend Viswanathan Anand. Caruana and Sindarov ended the day with 4.5 factors out of 5 whereas Firouzja was within the third place with 3.5 factors.

It was additionally a blended day for five-time world champion Carlsen, who started the day with a convincing victory over Nakamura in the principle occasion of the day. Carlsen would reply in model to a loss towards Caruana with a commanding victory over Keymer. The Norwegian, nevertheless, would find yourself struggling uncommon back-to-back losses towards Vladimir Fedoseev and Sindarov to slide to the fifth spot on the desk.