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Duda takes lead, Gukesh steals the show; Aimchess Rapid – Day 3 recap

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Duda takes lead, Gukesh steals the show; Aimchess Rapid – Day 3 recap

Indian teenager Gukesh D made chess history in the Aimchess Rapid today as he became the youngest player ever to beat Magnus Carlsen as World Champion! Incredibly, the 16-year-old’s win was Carlsen’s second loss in two days against one of India’s new crop of talented teenagers in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Carlsen went down yesterday to 19-year-old Arjun Erigaisi. (Replay all games here)

“What a monumental day in history,” International Master Jovanka Houska said. “It was just an incredible, incredible performance by Gukesh.”

The key moment in the Round 9 game was after Gukesh played 25.Rc7 in a position that looked good for Carlsen. The champ’s reply 25…Re8? turned out to be a blunder and after 26.Qb6! putting Carlsen’s queen in peril, Gukesh was suddenly winning. Carlsen, playing from a log cabin in northern Sweden, spent five minutes thinking about his move after realising his mistake. He was shaking his head, gesticulating and spinning on his chair. Clearly, he was angry with himself. A few moves later, he resigned.

Magnus has no way out and is visibly furious with himself! https://t.co/skFbsoEqHV #ChessChamps #AimchessRapid pic.twitter.com/cXcannm7pH

— chess24.com (@chess24com) October 16, 2022

Commentating, International Master Lawrence Trent said: “The opening actually went very well for Magnus and he was kind of cruising. “But this move came out of nowhere, literally it was completely unexpected.” Speaking of Carlsen, Trent said: “He’s a man who, let’s put it this way, he doesn’t like to lose so he’s going to have to regroup quite quickly.”

Gukesh was 16 years 4 months 20 days while the previous record before Gukesh’s win was Praggnanandhaa’s 39-move victory over Carlsen in the Airthings Masters in February. Pragg, who is not playing in this event, was 16 years 6 months and 10 days old. Despite the win, Gukesh wasn’t impressed with his own play. “Obviously, beating Magnus is always special but I was not really very proud of that game,” he said.

However, he did crack a smile when told he was the youngest player to beat Carlsen as World Champion. But the chess gods are always cruel. In the next game, Gukesh immediately came back down to earth when he lost in 42 moves to the high-flying Pole Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who ended the day on top of the leaderboard.

Meanwhile, in Round 11 Carlsen came up against another wonderkid, the 18-year-old Uzbek World Rapid Champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov who led the first two days. After a crazy game, which IM Trent described as “alien chess”, it ended in a draw. With a loss and two draws, it took until his last game of the day for Carlsen to record his first win, over the Swede Nils Grandelius. Carlsen, who finished with 21/36pts, is woefully out of form by his own high standards.

On his losses to young Indian’s Carlsen said: “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.”

All 3 teenagers @DGukesh @ArjunErigaisi @rpragchess have now defeated the World Champion Magnus Carlsen! It is only a matter of time there will be another Classical World Champion from India! @aicfchess @DrSK_AICF pic.twitter.com/9mFmsl8GFG

— Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar) October 16, 2022

Going into the final round, Round 12 of 15 in the prelim stage, it was Duda making the running 3pts ahead of the pack after three straight wins. That run was brought to an end by Abdusattorov, and a loss against the Uzbek left Duda one point ahead of the on-form Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Both Duda and Mamedyarov are sure to progress into the event’s knockout.

Going into tomorrow’s final three rounds of the prelim, the stage is set for a big battle to make the top eight and avoid the cut. Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, Richard Rapport, Daniel Naroditsky and Vidit Gujrathi are right in the thick of it.

Rankings after Day 3:

1  Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 25/36 2754
2  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 23/36 2712
3  Gukesh D 21/36 2606
4  Erigaisi Arjun 21/36 2720
5  Carlsen, Magnus 21/36 2902
6  Abdusattorov, Nodirbek 20/36 2678
7  Rapport, Richard 18/36 2735
8  Giri, Anish 18/36 2737
9  Anton Guijarro, David 15/36 2706
10  Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi 14/36 2691
11  Naroditsky, Daniel 14/36 2617
12  Aditya Mittal 12/36 2569
13  Keymer, Vincent 12/36 2740
14  Grandelius, Nils 7/36 2632
15  Harikrishna, Pentala 7/36 2679
16  Hansen, Eric 7/36 2618

The award-winning Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, the world’s leading year-round chess circuit, reaches its penultimate tournament with the Aimchess Rapid. The event features 16 players in a round-robin prelim stage before the field is cut to eight and knockouts begin. The Aimchess Rapid is the last “Regular” tournament of the 2022 season with a prize pot of $150,000 before the end-of-season final event starts on November 14. Every move will be streamed live and for free on chess24.com/tour and on chess24’s Twitch and YouTube channels.

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