Gukesh’s hopes of going through Carlsen and different stars at dwelling throughout Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in peril: Report

Gukesh’s hopes of going through Carlsen and different stars at dwelling throughout Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in peril: Report

Reigning world champion D Gukesh would have relished the prospect of taking over world No 1 Magnus Carlsen in entrance of dwelling followers in the course of the Delhi leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, which is scheduled to happen in September.

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Reigning world champion D Gukesh’s dream of going through the likes of Magnus Carlsen and different prime names in chess in entrance of his dwelling crowd seems to be in peril with the Freestyle Chess reportedly mulling shifting the India leg of the Grand Slam tour later this yr.

The Carlsen-backed Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour shall be getting underway in lower than every week in Weissenhaus, Germany (7-14 February), with the remaining legs going down in Paris (8-15 April), New York Metropolis (17-24 July), New Delhi (17-24 September) and Cape City (5-12 December).

Talking to The Instances of India, German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner – who co-founded Freestyle Chess Gamers Membership in addition to the profitable tour with Carlsen – hinted on the India leg getting dropped from their 2025 schedule.

Buettner,
who can be reportedly in talks with FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich to reach at a truce with the world governing physique after
weeks of unhealthy blood, added that the tour organisers are at present looking out for different  venues whereas explaining why the Indian capital would possibly lose out on internet hosting the fourth and penultimate leg.

“Delhi is the one event we haven’t finalised but as a result of we’re receiving affords from different cities. They’re providing internet hosting charges. If we get a seven or eight-figure provide from one other location, we’ll go there,” Buettner instructed TOI.

“We’ve saved it (Delhi) as a placeholder till we safe another venuem,” he added.

Buettner additional revealed that he had reached out to Indian enterprise magnate Anand Mahindra in London to safe his help for the inaugural Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, including that he isn’t thinking about any chess ventures aside from International Chess League.

World No 3 Gukesh, who had defeated Ding Liren to be topped the 18th and the youngest chess world champion in December, is at present taking part on the Tata Metal Chess Match in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, the place he’s
sharing the lead within the Masters standings with fellow Indian R Praggnanandhaa.

The 18-year-old Indian Grandmaster, who had
lately obtained the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, is the one participant assured to take part in all 5 legs of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour – which shall be performed within the Chess960 format, one which was developed and popularised by late American chess icon Bobby Fischer.

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