Dommaraju Gukesh ‘not very proud’ of the sport he beat world champion Magnus Carlsen

Imagine being the youngest participant on the earth to beat a world champion and never being completely happy concerning the recreation.

Meet Indian teenage chess star Dommaraju Gukesh, who on Monday, turned the youngest chess participant ever to beat Magnus Carlsen as World Chess Champion.

Gukesh was vital of his play after he defeated Carlsen within the ninth spherical of the Aimchess Rapid, the eighth occasion on the $1.6 million 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.

“Beating Magnus is always special, but I was not very proud of that game,” he stated in his post-game evaluation.

Carlsen had the higher hand in a double-edged place, when an innocuous-looking transfer turned the tables in favour of the Indian.

Back in February, one other Indian chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu had defeated Carlsen in spherical 8 of the Airthings Masters, the primary event of the Champions Chess Tour. At the time, Pragg was 16 years, 6 months and 10 days previous. On Monday, Gukesh beat the Carlsen at 16 years, 4 months and 20 days of age.

It was the second time in two days the place Carlsen was shocked by an Indian. On Sunday, Arjun Erigaisi had shocked the world champion.

Commenting on his losses towards Indian younger grandmasters, Carlsen stated: “Pragg is the only one I’ve lost multiple times to. As for Arjun and Gukesh: Arjun I’ve generally beaten; Gukesh very similar. I think Gukesh has been extremely impressive in classical chess recently. Perhaps this rapid win wasn’t his proudest effort, even though getting a win is always nice”.

For Gukesh, it was a most candy distinction to the episode in Chess Olympiad in Chennai.

D Gukesh. (Twitter/International Chess Federation)

He was adjudged the very best participant of the event in Chennai for his record-equalling streak of 8 wins in 8 video games, however it was a loss that had haunted him. He had combusted towards the Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattoroy, simply as India appeared on brink of defeating the eventual champions Uzbekistans.

For a lot of the match Gukesh was profitable, earlier than it got here to a drawing place, whereupon his opponent supplied a draw. He refused and received crushed. He felt devastated and shut himself within the room.

“Yeah we won a medal, I won a medal but the bronze would have been a gold, but for the mistake I made. I was very angry at myself, and that hurts me,” he stated.

But the nice and cozy embrace of Viswanathan Anand soothed him. “He told me that it is all part of life and you should get motivation from such incidents. He then recollected some of his own heartbreaking moments and I felt much better,” he stated.

The son of an ENT surgeon and a microbiologist, he has probably the most versatile recreation amongst Nihal Sarin, R Praggnanandhaa and Raunak Sadhwani, and now with a triumph towards Carslen, the longer term seems vibrant. He is scaling peaks at fast tempo, and it’s hardly any marvel that he keenly follows the American free climber Alex Honnold, who has climbed  among the tallest mountains on the earth with none protecting gear. “One slip, he could die. But he never slips. That’s why I like him a lot. It’s like that in chess, one slip and you could lose,” he had as soon as stated.