NEW DELHI: Polish chess grandmaster and D Gukesh‘s coach throughout the recently-concluded FIDE World Chess Championship, Grzegorz Gajewski has mirrored on the rise of the brand new world chess champion Gukesh.
He drew comparisons between his protégé and Magnus Carlsen, who’s a five-time world champion and likewise considered the best chess participant of all time.
Gajewski, nevertheless, highlighted a transparent distinction of their types, emphasizing that Gukesh’s analytical strategy units him aside from Carlsen’s intuitive gameplay.
“He won’t ever be a participant like Magnus Carlsen within the sense of being an intuitive form of a participant,” Gajewski advised The Hindu. “He (Gukesh) likes to calculate and he likes to go deep into place. He doesn’t prefer to make strikes simply purely based mostly on instinct. He won’t ever play within the Magnus type, however he can very properly mimic it.”
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Having labored with legendary five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, Gajewski went on to elucidate how Gukesh compares with a few of the recreation’s different greats.
He hailed Anand as certainly one of historical past’s best abilities for calculation however famous that Gukesh’s endurance and precision make him a singular drive on the chessboard.
“Vishy, when it comes to expertise for calculation, maybe nobody within the historical past of the sport might match him. However on the identical time, he was so quick that typically it grew to become his weak spot. Gukesh considerably resembles a younger Fabiano Caruana,” he remarked.
D Gukesh created historical past by turning into the youngest World Chess Champion, dethroning China’s Ding Liren in a fiercely contested 14-game sequence in Singapore.
In recognition of his outstanding achievements, the Tamil Nadu State Authorities organized a grand felicitation ceremony for Gukesh final Tuesday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin personally awarded the prodigy a cheque for Rs 5 crore, lauding his contributions to Indian chess on the worldwide stage.
