Magnus Carlsen says D Gukesh is not a favorite in opposition to Ding Liren in World Chess Championship 2024
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The five-time chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, was additionally essential of D Gukesh’s gameplay within the 9 video games of World Chess Championship 2024 and felt that the match is now evenly poised.
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World No.1 chess participant Magnus Carlsen feels that the continuing World Chess Championship 2024 has reached some extent the place India’s D Gukesh isn’t any extra a favorite. Gukesh, who gained FIDE Candidates 2024 on the age of 17 and helped India win a historic gold medal on the forty fifth Olympiad, was seen as a transparent favorite going into the
World Chess Championship 2024 in opposition to reigning champion Ding Liren of China.
Ding, 32, had not gained a classical chess recreation since January 2024 earlier than the Championship started on 25 November on the Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore however shocked the world
with a victory in Recreation 1 earlier than shedding to Gukesh in Recreation 3. The opposite seven matches thus far have resulted in a draw and the scores are tied at 4.5-4.5.
The 14-game sequence
has 5 extra video games left and can resume with Recreation 10 on Saturday (7 December).
“We’ve got lastly arrived at some extent the place Gukesh will not be a favorite on this match anymore. We’ve got a pure 50-50 match at this level,” Carlsen mentioned on the Take Take Take app whereas reviewing the Recreation 9.
Carlsen, a five-time world champion, has been fairly essential of the usual of chess performed thus far on the World Chess Championship 2024.
Carlsen criticises Gukesh’s gameplay
The 34-year-old Norwegian additionally analysed Gukesh’s recreation and felt that the Indian Grandmaster will not be doing sufficient within the Championship to safe a win.
“If Gukesh had been extra vigilant or extra correct, he may have put Ding beneath stress right here,” Carlsen mentioned analysing a transfer in Recreation 9. “That is what he’s performed incorrect. When Ding has little time, he has form of pressured Ding to play effectively.”
“It’s simpler to say in hindsight, however I feel Gukesh may have performed a little bit higher to maintain the strain ready that’s objectively drawn, however in the meanwhile not fully equal. I feel he made it a little bit too straightforward for Ding.”
