D Gukesh beats chief Fabiano Caruana at Norway Chess match

India’s youthful stalwart Grandmaster D Gukesh continued his good run of kind inside the seventh spherical of the 2023 Norway Chess match, beating sole chief Fabiano Caruana inside the Armageddon on Tuesday.

17-year-old Gukesh was sturdy inside the Classical sport to play out a draw. In the Armageddon, though he was misplaced inside the queen endgame, he was in luck as Caruana ran out of time and misplaced the game.

Time trouble is one factor that Caruana has been discovering robust all by the use of this match. Though he obtained his Classical sport on Monday in the direction of GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, he may’ve merely misplaced the match for taking too prolonged.

🇮🇳 GM Gukesh D continues his top quality run as he put up a robust sport as Black inside the classical part and drew in the direction of GM Fabiano Caruana! #NorwayChess

In the armageddon, @DGukesh obtained on time and is presently tied for fourth with 10.5/21. @norwaychess pic.twitter.com/ErHayFF6YL

— Chess.com – India (@chesscom_in) June 7, 2023

“The time control is such that once you get into time trouble you never get out and when it’s very complicated basically you just are out of control. And I was fully out of control, but somehow it worked out”, he talked about after the game on Monday.

The loss to Gukesh didn’t impact the American’s place as sole chief with 14.5/21 adopted by Hikaru Nakamura 12.5/21. Nakamura defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in an thrilling Armageddon in a backwards and forwards sport.

With the victory, Gukesh now moved to fifth place on the leaderboard with a score of 10/21. Gukesh has had some strong performances at this match, even beating Dutch GM and winner of this 12 months Tata Steel Chess Anish Giri inside the earlier spherical. He performs Aryan Tari on Thursday, with Wednesday being a rest day.

The focus on of the match has been five-time World Champion Magus Carlsen’s battle to win a Classical sport at this event. That winless streak continued on Tuesday as he drew the game with Alireza Firouzja. Carlsen, who chosen to not compete at this 12 months’s World Championships, was too good for Firouzja in Armageddon though. He’s presently languishing in seventh place with a score of 9/21.

So leapfrogs to third place

Nodirbek Abdusattorov suffered his second consecutive loss, third common in Classical video video games at this event. This win allowed Wesley So to leap to the third spot inside the standings 10.5/21.