Im not having fun with taking part in chess: Carlsen after defeat to Gukesh

The 19-year-old Indian Grandmaster as soon as once more outplayed the previous world champion maverick, this time within the fast format on the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz match on Thursday (July 3, 2025) .

The win comes lower than a month after Gukesh shocked Carlsen within the classical format on the Norway Chess match, a match that ended with latter visibly annoyed, famously banging the desk.

“Honestly, I am not enjoying playing chess at all right now. I just, I don’t feel any flow at all when I’m playing. I’m constantly hesitating and it’s just really poor right now,” Carlsen advised ‘Take Take Take’ after the loss.

The win towards Carlsen marked Gukesh’s fifth consecutive triumph within the match as he grabbed the only lead after six rounds.

“He’s doing incredibly well now (in the format). It’s a long way to go in the tournament but winning five games in a row is no mean feat,” stated Carlsen.

Carlsen has hardly ever missed a chance to voice his doubts over Gukesh’s prowess within the sooner codecs.

But he now has struggles of his personal to fret about as he has managed only one win thus far within the ongoing match. He conceded that his total efficiency within the has been sub-par.

“I have played kind of poorly the whole tournament and this time I got soundly punished,” he stated.

He credited Gukesh for capitalising on his possibilities whereas admitting that he discovered himself “hopelessly lost” at one level in the course of the sport. Playing with white items, Carlsen was compelled to resign after 49 strikes.

“I had a very, very nice position. He took his chance to open out his position with C6. After that it was a little bit like earlier where I got short of time and I couldn’t really handle it that well and he found a lot of really good moves.” “I had one final likelihood in some unspecified time in the future to bail out to one thing that was very, very drawish however I assumed let’s proceed taking part in after which a few strikes later I used to be fairly hopelessly misplaced.

“It was poor but all credit to Gukesh. He’s playing well and is taking his chances too,” he stated.