Magnus Carlsen units new benchmark with 9/9 rating at Grenke Chess Freestyle Open; earns new Bobby Fischer comparability
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Magnus Carlsen’s nine-game successful streak on the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 is being in comparison with the good Bobby Fischer’s dominance on the 1963-64 US Championship. The actual fact the Carlsen’s win got here in Freestyle Chess format makes it much more particular.
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World No.1 Magnus Carlsen outdid himself to realize an ideal 9/9 rating as he received the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 on Monday. In actual fact, Carlsen had received the event in spherical eight itself and attaining an ideal rating has strengthened his legacy additional as followers are evaluating it to legendary chess participant Bobby Fischer’s 11/11 rating within the 1963-64 US Championship.
Carlsen had received 9 matches on the trot on the SuperUnited Speedy and Blitz Croatia 2023; nevertheless, that achievement got here within the Blitz time management. The victories on the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 got here in Classical time management.
Carlsen clinches 9/9 rating, calls it ‘unimaginable’
It must be famous that Carlsen solely confronted one participant rated above 2700 Elo within the event, which was Germany’s Vincent Keymer in Spherical 9. Nonetheless, the 34-year-old Norwegian defeated 5 gamers who had been rated between 2600 and 2700.
The truth that Carlsen’s nine-game successful streak got here in Freestyle format, by which the again positions are randomised and there may be not a lot information on the openings, makes it an much more spectacular achievement.
The distinctiveness of clinching the right rating might be felt from Carlsen’s phrases after his grand victory. “It’s unimaginable. I’ve by no means performed that in classical chess, or in any format and it’s not gonna occur once more. It feels wonderful,” Carlsen mentioned in a video uploaded by ChessBase India.
Another related achievements in chess are USA Grandmaster Karen Grigoryan registering a 9/9 rating on the 2019 VII Torneio Internacional Cidade de Famalicao or French Girl Grandmaster Andreaa Navrotescu securing 9/9 on the Menchik Memorial Challengers Match 2024 in London.
India’s Arjun Erigaisi stays alive in race to LA
The winner of the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 was to get a direct entry on the Las Vegas leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 in July. Nonetheless, as Carlsen, who received the Paris leg, has already certified for it, a tiebreaker shall be performed among the many seven gamers who completed second in Germany.
The seven gamers who completed joint second on the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 on 7 factors are Leinier Dominguez, Fabiano Caruana, Andrey Esipenko, Alexey Sarana, Parham Maghsoodloo, Frederik Svane and India’s Arjun Erigaisi.
The tiebreaker will happen at a later date and the format has nonetheless not been revealed.
