Magnus Carlsen predicts D Gukesh's World C'ship challenger: Hes nonetheless extraordinarily good. There's no purpose he could not'

Jun 06, 2025 10:12 AM IST

Since turning into World Champion, D Gukesh has had a blended bag of outcomes.

Despite being the World No. 1, Magnus Carlsen pulled out of the earlier FIDE World C’ship cycle. The Norwegian pulled out of the continued cycle too, and gained’t be making an attempt to problem D Gukesh for the classical World Champion title. Carlsen is a five-time World Champion. Meanwhile, Gukesh turned the youngest-ever World Champion final yr, beating Ding Liren.

Magnus Carlsen predicted D Gukesh’s World C’ship challenger.(HT_PRINT)

Since turning into World Champion, Gukesh has had a blended bag of outcomes. He was in dominant kind on the Tata Masters, however a late dip in kind noticed him accept second place. Meanwhile, his Freestyle Chess run has been poor, and his ongoing Norway Chess marketing campaign has been topsy-turvy.

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He started his marketing campaign on a weak notice, however then staged a comeback to beat Carlsen and Erigaisi. Carlsen had crushed him within the marketing campaign opener, however then Gukesh managed to defeat him after they met once more, and in addition acquired his first classical win towards the veteran.

But then Gukesh’s kind stuttered as he misplaced to Hikaru Nakamura, with the American GM successful with ease.

Speaking to Take Take Take, Carlsen felt Nakamura stood a powerful probability to defeat Gukesh, if he gained the Candidates event. It is to be famous that the winner of the Candidates will problem the World Champion.

“I think if Hikaru, Fabi, or probably Nepo for that matter win the candidates, at the moment they would be a favorite in a match against Gukesh. Hikaru’s come close twice; he’s still extremely good. There’s no reason he couldn’t,” he stated.

Carlsen has been extremely essential of Gukesh, after the Indian GM turned World Champion. Carlsen criticised the qualify of the World C’ship, particularly the character of Liren’s blunder within the decisive recreation. Carlsen’s sentiments have been echoed by Vladimir Kramnik too. Gukesh gained the 2024 Candidates event to qualify for the World Championship.

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