Anish Giri takes refined dig at Carlsen after Praggnanandhaa beats Gukesh to win Tata Metal Chess Masters title: ‘Co-champions, possibly?’
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Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri took a refined dig at Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi after Praggnanandhaa defeated Gukesh in sudden dying to clinch the 2025 Tata Metal Masters title. Carlsen and Ian had controversially shared the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship in December.
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R Praggnanandhaa defeated Dommaraju Gukesh in an all-Indian finale to clinch the 2025 Tata Metal Chess Masters title on Sunday. All of it got here right down to the wire particularly after Gukesh, the world champion, misplaced the plot in direction of the top if the match.
Gukesh was the only real chief of the Masters class at one stage however a loss to fellow Indian Arjun Erigaisi in spherical 13 on Sunday put him in additional bother. For Arjun, it was a second consecutive win after having crushed Nodirbek Abdusattorov in Spherical 12. And regardless of Praggnanandhaa’s loss to Vincent Keymer within the last spherical, he was nonetheless stage on factors with Gukesh, with each having 8.5 factors.
As per the official guidelines when two gamers are on the identical rating, a play-off match of two video games adopted, and after the play-off video games had been additionally drawn, the
two battled it out in sudden dying. Praggnanandhaa bettered Gukesh in sudden dying to win the title.
‘Co-champions, possibly?,’ asks Anish Giri
Taking a refined dig on the controversial final result within the Open part of the 2024 World Blitz Championship Carlsen gave a reminder to the organisers that it was nearly 12 am in Chennai, the hometown of each Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh. “It’s late in Chennai.. co-champions possibly?,” Anish posted on “X”.
It is late in Chennai.. co-champions possibly?
— Anish Giri (@anishgiri) February 2, 2025
World No 1 Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi had
controversially determined to share the 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship title in December after having drawn within the tie-breaker spherical. A video footage of the duo agreeing to play out attracts if the FIDE didn’t settle for Carlsen’s choice to share the title had additionally gone viral. Nevertheless, Carlsen backed is stance saying that it was only a “dangerous joke” and
not an try and affect FIDE.
On Sunday, Gukesh received the primary tie-breaker earlier than Praggnanandhaa bounced again to win the second tie-breaker in addition to the sudden dying recreation.
