That level of chess was available in every country of the world.
Do we have culture of swimming too?
Unless Ding has been playing the greatest possum in history, it should be a one sided affair. He has been facing mental blocks since the Championship and even before that. Falling from 2800+ to 2720 rapidly and making blunders is hardly elite class play. Never in history have we gotten a scenario where World Champion is below Top 20 in ranking.Boys are getting confident and cockier now. The way Gukesh and Arjun talk to press, they are no longer holding back like before.
Here's Arjun claiming that Gukesh-Ding will be a massacre.
Arjun looks like a babar azam to me,a complete Statpadder.i hope he starts playing against the strong opponents and prove his worth.
He is not statpadder. He didn't get invites for Super tournaments like Pragg and Gukesh in the last couple of years. So he had to play open tournaments and spanking 2600+ rated GMs. Top players avoid such open tournaments because even beating 2600 rated GM consistently is not easy and a single draw will drag their ELO down. No one in the history has managed to achieve such high rating through the open tournaments route.
I agree with u on the rest but the xxx appeal of playing along with super gms is different and competing for top spot starts there.its the ego factor showing who is the boss. I will like arjun to be on par with pragg,gukesh .
As u said it's good on part of him.but i will wait for classical games against the best
Hope @sweep_shot is proud and tears are dropping his cheeks after seeing an india won the tournament and became a champion
I have a few Indian friends who are discussing and posting about Chess. this truly make me surprised that how much Indians do love Chess. I have even seen some of the famous memic artists playing Chess in the public. They are promoting it well and deserve all these rewards now.How's this for a story)
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Chess Olympiad: India and Russia both get gold after controversial final
India and Russia have been declared joint winners of a major international chess tournament after two Indian players lost their internet connection during the final round.
An online version of the Chess Olympiad contest is being held for the first time this year because of coronavirus.
India appealed after two of its players lost connection to their games and forfeited on time.
Officials said these were "unprecedented circumstances".
"The Online Chess Olympiad has been impacted by a global internet outage, that severely affected several countries, including India. Two of the Indian players have been affected and lost connection, when the outcome of the match was still unclear," Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess Federation, said in a statement.
He said he decided to award both teams gold medals in the "absence of a unanimous decision" from the body's appeals committee.
Teams from more than 160 countries have participated in this year's online event, which began in July.
But the final is not the first time the tournament has come under scrutiny.
Armenia on Friday said one of its players was disconnected from the server during its quarterfinal match against India, and lost on time. Its appeal was rejected and the country withdrew from the competition in protest.
The 44th Chess Olympiad was scheduled to take place in Russia this month but was postponed until next year because of the pandemic.
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Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest world chess champion after horrific Ding Liren blunder
Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju capped a stunning ascent to the pinnacle of chess by dethroning China’s Ding Liren to become the youngest ever world chess champion on Thursday in Singapore.
The 18-year-old from Chennai snatched the decisive victory from a dead-drawn position in the final game of their best-of-14-games showdown when Ding made one of the worst blunders in the 138-year history of world championship matchplay. The 32-year-old defending champion resigned moments later after a game that lasted 58 moves and just over four hours, sealing Gukesh’s 7½-6½ win in the $2.5m match and rendering moot the widely expected prospect of tiebreaker matches on Friday afternoon.
Gukesh said he didn’t initially recognize Ding’s rook move as a blunder. It took a few seconds to realize that his opponent’s bishop was trapped.
“When I realized it, it was probably the best moment of my life,” said Gukesh, who brings home the $1.35m (£1.06m) winner’s share of the $2.5m prize fund along with the sport’s most prestigious title.
Ding, playing with the white pieces, was better out of the opening but Gukesh was able to unlock his pieces and stabilize in the middlegame. The draw appeared inevitable when material starting coming off the board in bunches starting with move 19.
But a game that appeared bound for a peaceful result suddenly became complicated when Ding sacrificed a pawn in exchange for a simple endgame. That left Gukesh with no choice but to fight on and he was more than happy to punish his foe in a grueling endgame under mounting time pressure.
That’s when Ding finally cracked.
“I was totally in shock when I realized I made a blunder,” Ding said. “His facial expression showed that he was very happy and excited and I realized I made a blunder. It took some time to realize it.”
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was among the first to congratulate Gukesh after he became only the second world champion from India along with Viswanathan Anand, who held the crown from 2017 through 2013.
“Historic and exemplary!” Modi wrote on X. “Congratulations to Gukesh D on his remarkable accomplishment. This is the result of his unparalleled talent, hard work and unwavering determination.”
After Ding resigned, the tears flowed as Gukesh sat the board overcome by emotion while hundreds of his supporters set off scenes of jubilation in the spectators’ area.
“I probably got so emotional because I did not really expect to win from that position,” Gukesh said. “I was going to press it for as long as it as I could possibly press, but I thought, ‘It’s OK. We are going to play for five, six hours. It’s going to end in a draw, and let’s focus on the tiebreaks.’
“But then suddenly after Rf2 and I saw [the game] was actually done. I was already preparing myself to go through that huge tiebreak fight and suddenly it was all over and I had achieved my dream. I’m not someone who shows a lot of emotions, but I think this one can be forgiven.”
Last year Ding became the first men’s world chess champion from China by defeating Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan, capturing the title abdicated by longtime world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway. But he’d played very sparingly in the 19 months since then amid a well-documented bout with depression, including a nine-month hiatus to prioritize his mental health.
He entered the title match having gone 28 classical games without a win, a dreadful run of form that saw him drop to 23rd in the world rankings and prompted the oddsmakers to install him as roughly a 3-1 longshot in the match. But he sprang a major surprise in Game 1 by winning as black, ending the 304-day winless streak with a riveting opening salvo.
Game 2 was a quiet draw, before Gukesh roared back with a win in Game 3. The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th games were each draws. Gukesh won on Sunday in Game 11 before Ding struck back in Monday’s Game 12. The 13th game on Wednesday saw Ding hold on in a high-wire draw, leaving the score at 6½-all entering Thursday’s finale at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast.
While Ding had been regarded as the underdog in the match due to his unremarkable form, he would have gone off as a slight favorite if Game 14 was drawn and the match was settled on Friday with a series of tiebreak games with faster time controls.
“Champions always step up to the moment,” Gukesh said. “Obviously the past two years he hasn’t been in great shape, but he came here. He was obviously struggling during some of games. He was probably not at his best physically. But he fought in all games. He fought like a true champion.”
Gukesh, commonly known as Gukesh D, became the third-youngest grandmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, he stunned the chess establishment by winning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youngest ever challenger for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana.
That Gukesh was even playing for the world title was a historic achievement. Until April, teenagers had had an indifferent record in the Candidates over the years. Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, were younger than Gukesh, and both were also-rans.
“My journey, it’s been since the time I started playing chess at six and a half, seven [years old],” Gukesh said. “I’ve been dreaming about this moment for more than 10 years. Every chess player wants to experience this moment and very few get the chance. To be one of them is ... I think the only way to explain it is I am living my dream.”
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Gukesh Dommaraju is the 18th world chess champion after defeating Ding Liren in the 14th and final game of their world championship matchwww.theguardian.com
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Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest world chess champion after horrific Ding Liren blunder
Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju capped a stunning ascent to the pinnacle of chess by dethroning China’s Ding Liren to become the youngest ever world chess champion on Thursday in Singapore.
The 18-year-old from Chennai snatched the decisive victory from a dead-drawn position in the final game of their best-of-14-games showdown when Ding made one of the worst blunders in the 138-year history of world championship matchplay. The 32-year-old defending champion resigned moments later after a game that lasted 58 moves and just over four hours, sealing Gukesh’s 7½-6½ win in the $2.5m match and rendering moot the widely expected prospect of tiebreaker matches on Friday afternoon.
Gukesh said he didn’t initially recognize Ding’s rook move as a blunder. It took a few seconds to realize that his opponent’s bishop was trapped.
“When I realized it, it was probably the best moment of my life,” said Gukesh, who brings home the $1.35m (£1.06m) winner’s share of the $2.5m prize fund along with the sport’s most prestigious title.
Ding, playing with the white pieces, was better out of the opening but Gukesh was able to unlock his pieces and stabilize in the middlegame. The draw appeared inevitable when material starting coming off the board in bunches starting with move 19.
But a game that appeared bound for a peaceful result suddenly became complicated when Ding sacrificed a pawn in exchange for a simple endgame. That left Gukesh with no choice but to fight on and he was more than happy to punish his foe in a grueling endgame under mounting time pressure.
That’s when Ding finally cracked.
“I was totally in shock when I realized I made a blunder,” Ding said. “His facial expression showed that he was very happy and excited and I realized I made a blunder. It took some time to realize it.”
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was among the first to congratulate Gukesh after he became only the second world champion from India along with Viswanathan Anand, who held the crown from 2017 through 2013.
“Historic and exemplary!” Modi wrote on X. “Congratulations to Gukesh D on his remarkable accomplishment. This is the result of his unparalleled talent, hard work and unwavering determination.”
After Ding resigned, the tears flowed as Gukesh sat the board overcome by emotion while hundreds of his supporters set off scenes of jubilation in the spectators’ area.
“I probably got so emotional because I did not really expect to win from that position,” Gukesh said. “I was going to press it for as long as it as I could possibly press, but I thought, ‘It’s OK. We are going to play for five, six hours. It’s going to end in a draw, and let’s focus on the tiebreaks.’
“But then suddenly after Rf2 and I saw [the game] was actually done. I was already preparing myself to go through that huge tiebreak fight and suddenly it was all over and I had achieved my dream. I’m not someone who shows a lot of emotions, but I think this one can be forgiven.”
Last year Ding became the first men’s world chess champion from China by defeating Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan, capturing the title abdicated by longtime world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway. But he’d played very sparingly in the 19 months since then amid a well-documented bout with depression, including a nine-month hiatus to prioritize his mental health.
He entered the title match having gone 28 classical games without a win, a dreadful run of form that saw him drop to 23rd in the world rankings and prompted the oddsmakers to install him as roughly a 3-1 longshot in the match. But he sprang a major surprise in Game 1 by winning as black, ending the 304-day winless streak with a riveting opening salvo.
Game 2 was a quiet draw, before Gukesh roared back with a win in Game 3. The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th games were each draws. Gukesh won on Sunday in Game 11 before Ding struck back in Monday’s Game 12. The 13th game on Wednesday saw Ding hold on in a high-wire draw, leaving the score at 6½-all entering Thursday’s finale at Resorts World Sentosa, an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast.
While Ding had been regarded as the underdog in the match due to his unremarkable form, he would have gone off as a slight favorite if Game 14 was drawn and the match was settled on Friday with a series of tiebreak games with faster time controls.
“Champions always step up to the moment,” Gukesh said. “Obviously the past two years he hasn’t been in great shape, but he came here. He was obviously struggling during some of games. He was probably not at his best physically. But he fought in all games. He fought like a true champion.”
Gukesh, commonly known as Gukesh D, became the third-youngest grandmaster in history at 12 years and seven months. In April, at 17, he stunned the chess establishment by winning the eight-man Candidates tournament in Toronto to become the youngest ever challenger for the world championship, finishing top of a stacked field that included Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana.
That Gukesh was even playing for the world title was a historic achievement. Until April, teenagers had had an indifferent record in the Candidates over the years. Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, were younger than Gukesh, and both were also-rans.
“My journey, it’s been since the time I started playing chess at six and a half, seven [years old],” Gukesh said. “I’ve been dreaming about this moment for more than 10 years. Every chess player wants to experience this moment and very few get the chance. To be one of them is ... I think the only way to explain it is I am living my dream.”
Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest world chess champion after horrific Ding Liren blunder
Gukesh Dommaraju is the 18th world chess champion after defeating Ding Liren in the 14th and final game of their world championship match
There is appetite for every game among Indians.World Federations have to bring game much closer to the indian audience along with the monetary benefits to push the game for ever .yesterday game was followed by almost by 150 K people on Indian YouTube channel and official broadcaster was having around 14k on their YouTube channel.Anand brought 30 or 35 years of chess following in india and now gukesh extended it for another 30 years.
I hope he grows further, the monkey is off the back. Now the goal is to chase 2800+ and maybe challenge Magnus in a few years.
Rightly kicked out and even Magnus wants them to stay kicked out. Usually you sympathize with players paying the price like Rublev in tennis, but Russian chess players are some of the most toxic bunch, past and present.
Magnus blundered big time. It wasn't sore loser behaviour. He was frustrated with himself due to lack of time he played that blunder and hence was angry with himself.World Chess Champion D Gukesh beats World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the 6th round of Norway Chess.
Congratulations Gukesh
What a sore loser behaviour by Carlson.
Magnus blundered tbf due to lack of time
He's still > any indian chess player throughout history.
Magnus isn't a sore loser, his frustration was with himself because he got into a time scramble but the tiny Indian brain cant comprehend that.World Chess Champion D Gukesh beats World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the 6th round of Norway Chess.
Congratulations Gukesh
What a sore loser behaviour by Carlson.
Fr, I would love to have one.Maybe we can have a PakPassion chess tournament. It can be held on an online platform like chess.com or lichess.org.
I am down with it.
Chess.com can't unless you play 10 or more games for the computer to analyse. Plenty of time to cheese a tournament.
I believe some Indian posters willI see.
I still think a tournament should be held. Why would anyone cheat? There is nothing at stake and there is no cash prize.
Thank you brother, but I am not playing these chomus.
Thank you brother, but I am not playing these chomus.
We should have a chess tournament with honest people. Like you, me, Redwood etc.I propose having a chess tournament without any sanghi.
Sanghis are automatically disqualified for being prone to dishonesty, cheating, and moral bankruptcy.
Cheating can be minimized by playing a 6-8 games match but instead of 1 vs 1, make it a Team vs Team
2nd July - Magnus Carlsen said, "Gukesh is presumably one of the weaker players I'll be playing".
3rd July - Gukesh beat Magnus .
Never takes the panga with Indians. Another humiliation for arrogant Carlsen
Your favorite Deepseek just busted you @sweep_shot -
Your favorite Deepseek just busted you @sweep_shot -
It's still shameful to have the other two countries this close, Bharat needs an improvement, I'll agree.
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Please make it that way then. I replied to the post that was already allowed to exist.
Gukesh has gotten in Magnus's Head thats why.
There is no tournament win yet, it's just the rapid leg.
