D Gukesh actually sad resulting from Norway Chess 2025 marketing campaign: One factor about Magnus Carlsen is that

Other than beating Carlsen, Gukesh additionally secured wins towards Hikaru Nakamura and Arjun Erigaisi. Reflecting on his Norway Chess marketing campaign, Gukesh identified that there have been ‘some issues’ he was ‘actually sad about’.

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Speaking to ChessBase India, he mentioned, “Can’t say completely happy, however there are some issues to be completely happy about, some issues to be actually sad about.”

“One factor is beginning so badly and ending so effectively. In the ultimate spherical, I had honest possibilities to win. Starting with two losses in a event like this, it’s not nice. Another factor to be completely happy about is, typically, when I’m in good kind, like all the pieces simply goes very easily, like in Candidates, Olympiad, when I’m in my finest kind, issues simply occur naturally.

“But generally, in tournaments when I’m not feeling at my finest, it goes shakily. In this event, clearly I used to be not nowhere near my finest. You don’t actually management your kind. It simply comes and goes,” he added. 

After his World Championship victory, Gukesh was in good kind in Wijk aan Zee, the place he got here second on the Tata Masters. But then kind crumbled as he had a poor run within the Weissenhaus and Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slams, and in addition got here ninth in a Classical event in Bucharesh, out of ten rivals.

Gukesh’s Norway Chess marketing campaign additionally started with a defeat to Carlsen, after which he misplaced to Arjun within the subsequent spherical. But then he bounced again to successful methods within the third spherical, beating Nakamura after which additionally sealing an Armageddon win towards Caruana. His finest second within the sixth spherical as he took benefit of an enormous end-game blunder by Carlsen, to beat the World No. 1. It was additionally his maiden classical win vs Carlsen. The defeat additionally noticed the Norwegian slam his desk in anger.

“One factor about Magnus is that even when he’s in unhealthy kind, he finishes second or third most. So one factor that I may be completely happy about is, despite the fact that I used to be taking part in fairly badly, to be sincere, I nonetheless had possibilities to win. I suppose the factor to be sad about is solely that in some video games, I used to be simply misevaluating,” mentioned Gukesh.

“For instance, in lots of video games, just about all of the video games, there have been one or two massive moments. But okay. That’s a chess weak point. It’s good that we might discover it, as a result of I can simply work on that. Some issues to be completely happy about, some issues to be not completely happy about. Overall, I feel it was a pleasant expertise,” he added.

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