Aarit Kapil, 9-year-old chess prodigy from India, nearly defeats Magnus Carlsen; shocks World No. 1 with draw

Jun 26, 2025 11:14 AM IST

Aarit Kapil from Delhi lately got here near defeating present World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in a web-based chess recreation.

Indian chess has been rising exponentially, with three GMs throughout the prime class of the present reside rankings. Arjun Erigaisi is the present World No. 4, adopted by reigning world champion D Gukesh in fifth place and R Praggnanandhaa in seventh place. Now a nine-year-old Indian chess participant has been put beneath the highlight.

Aarit Kapil was additionally reportedly enjoying the sport from a lodge room in Georgia.

Aarit Kapil from Delhi lately got here near defeating present World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in a web-based chess recreation. It was a part of an occasion known as ‘Early Titled Tuesday’, which was hosted on Chess.com. He put the Norwegian in a decent scenario of their blitz conflict and was in a profitable place at one level. But then with just a few seconds left on his clock, the chess prodigy did not convert his benefit and the sport led to a draw.

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Aarit was additionally reportedly enjoying the sport from a lodge room in Georgia, the place is taking part within the U-10 World Chess C’ship. He received each his video games within the firsy two rounds of the match.

Recently, Carlsen broke his silence when requested a couple of possible successor. He merely stated, “There is nobody. There is nobody in the mean time. That’s the trustworthy reply. There might be, however in the mean time, it’s unlikely.”

“At the second, I nonetheless suppose that the older guys are higher. Every single one among them (children) has very, very clear flaws of their video games.”

Passing his verdict on Gukesh, he remarked, “I feel Gukesh confirmed on this match that he’s on monitor, he’s doing incredible, however he is perhaps not manner forward of monitor as we could have thought.”

“I feel he’s sort of little bit the place I used to be, 2008, 2009ish, the place he can do extraordinarily effectively, however you’ll be able to nonetheless see that there are that nice outcomes that come not solely with the standard of positional play, it is lots of combating qualities. That is what children are presupposed to do, you aren’t presupposed to grasp every little thing at that age. As for the others, sure, they’re good however the probability of one among them changing into like a really clear primary, I don’t see it very clearly in the mean time,” he added.

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