Gukesh’s chief coach names unknown chess participant for key position in World C’ship win: ‘Not highly-rated proper now, however…’
D Gukesh scripted historical past on the World Chess Championship in Singapore lately, defeating defending champion Ding Liren within the decisive fourteenth recreation. It was an in depth encounter and the championship reached the deciding recreation. Within the decider, it seemed prefer it was going in response to Liren’s plan, who was attempting to pressure out a tie-breaker.
However an enormous blunder by the Chinese language grandmaster within the fifty fifth transfer noticed him resign and concede to Gukesh in a historic end result. To qualify for a showdown with Liren, Gukesh wanted to win the Candidates Event in April this yr. Forward of the occasion, he wasn’t the favorite, however ended up silencing his critics to win the competitors.
Grzegorz Gajewski names unknown chess star who helped D Gukesh
Talking to ChessBase.com, Gukesh’s chief coach Grzegorz Gajewski made a key revelation throughout an interview. Explaining his position and of his group members, Gajewski named an unknown chess participant, who ‘did a number of nice work throughout the match itself’. The participant additionally labored as Gukesh’s second within the match.
He stated, “After which, for the Candidates Event itself, we thought it will be good to have some younger gun, somebody who’s each gifted and hard-working. As a result of clearly, the younger gamers are very formidable, they usually need to obtain a lot. And so they simply love chess.”
“Yeah, in addition they suppose barely in a different way. So, it is good to have somebody from a youthful technology. After which, the thought got here to ask Jan Klimkowski to assist. He isn’t so high-rated proper now, however he’s already a grandmaster. He’s younger, he’s formidable, and he had some fascinating concepts in openings. And he appeared to know the sport fairly effectively for his age. So, we thought he would make a number of sense. And he truly did a number of nice work throughout the match itself, and he was an actual assist for me.”
When he was instructed that no one had heard of Klimkowski earlier than, he stated, “The humorous factor is he was truly right here throughout the match as a result of he was taking part in the Singapore Open. He virtually received the match. He misplaced the ultimate spherical, however he was main earlier than the final spherical.”
Though Gajewski talked about that Klimkowski is a Grandmaster, however in response to FIDE’s official web site, he has the title of an Worldwide Grasp. He has a typical score of 2504, with a 2420 in speedy and 2445 in blitz.
Gukesh has determined to skip the continued World Fast and Blitz Championship, a format which can be not his power. He shall be again in motion subsequent yr, and is about to tackle the likes of Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen in confirmed fixtures.
