Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus Day 5 Highlights: Gukesh and Nakamura play out draw; Carlsen surprised by Keymer

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Weissenhaus Day 5 LIVE: The opening occasion of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour on the Weissenhaus Personal Nature Luxurious Resort enters its enterprise finish with the semi-finals set to get underway on Tuesday. Sadly for Indian followers, Gukesh Dommaraju is not going to be semi-finals and the ultimate.

Gukesh has endured his worst outing on the ongoing occasion since being topped world champion in Singapore in December. After ending runner-up on the Tata Metal Chess Event for the second consecutive 12 months, dropping to fellow Indian chess star Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa within the tie-breaks, Gukesh ended up bowing out of the Weissenhaus occasion within the quarter-finals with out a single win.

Gukesh, nonetheless, can nonetheless fly out of Germany on a considerably joyful notice if he is ready to register a win within the Fifth-Eighth classification play off that can be going down similtaneously the semi-finals and the ultimate.

The 18-year-old had completed within the Spherical-Robin stage with seven attracts and two defeats, dropping his final recreation in opposition to world No 1 Magnus Carlsen. He would then endure back-to-back losses in opposition to American GM Fabiano Caruana in quarter-finals to complete a match winless.

Whereas Gukesh resigned in 40 strikes in Recreation 1 after a blunder in his twenty fifth transfer, the second recreation of the quarter-finals ended much more rapidly – with the Chennai lad elevating the white flag in simply 18 strikes, leading to a rout for Caruana.

Within the different quarter-finals, Magnus Carlsen knocked Nodirbek Abdusattorov out 2-0 whereas Javokhir Sindarov – who was included as a alternative for Viswanathan Anand – continued his fairytale run by defeating American GM Hikaru Nakamura 2.5-1.5. Additionally failing to succeed in the semis was Alireza Firouzja, who misplaced to German GM Vincent Keymer 0.5-1.5 despiting ending on prime of the standings on the finish of the group stage.