D Gukesh’s performance post-World Chess Championship rated by Viswanathan Anand: ‘No, big deal’

Indian chess tale Viswanathan Anand analysed D Gukesh’s downhearted flee of place in 2025.

Since turning into the youngest-ever world champion in chess historic previous, D Gukesh has been experiencing a hard time. 2025 became once a topsy-turvy year for him, as he didn’t receive factual place. However there luxuriate in been some positives too, luxuriate in his victories in opposition to Magnus Carlsen. Gukesh also disillusioned at the Chess World Cup, falling to an early exit.

He did almost receive the Tata Chess Masters in Wijk aan Zee, however misplaced to R Praggnanandhaa in the tie-breaker title-deciding round. The Indian GM has also didn’t fulfill expectations in Freestyle Chess, however that became once no doubt now not his main priority too. He’ll be hoping to receive some place sooner than defending his title subsequent year.

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Talking to The Indian Particular, Indian chess tale Viswanathan Anand weighed in on Gukesh’s downhearted place in 2025. “No, big deal,” he acknowledged.

“He’s been experimenting in lots of formats. He’s willing to travel, he’s willing to go out there and try again and again. He’s not sitting on prestige (of being world champion). These are healthy qualities. His year in classical events, it’s fairly acceptable. I mean, losing a tiebreak (at Wijk aan Zee) doesn’t mean you’ve had a bad tournament. His performance in Norway Chess didn’t fit any mold, but in its own way, it was hopefully satisfactory.

“It’s factual that attributable to this fact, whether it’s Broad Swiss, or World Cup, or, especially the faster formats, he’s doubtlessly disillusioned. My luxuriate in feeling is, no mountainous deal. So long as he keeps pounding away at it, he’ll eventually glowing the formula,” he added.

Gukesh beat Ding Liren in Singapore last year, to become the new world champion. The result saw him become the youngest, undisputed world champion at the age of 18 years and 195 days. His team for the World C’ship included GMs Grzegorz Gajewski, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jan Klimkowski, Pentala Harikrishna and Vincent Keymer. He also had Paddy Upton as his mental conditioning coach.

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