Magnus Carlsen: Indian teenager Donnarumma Gukesh turns into the youngest participant ever to beat him as world champion

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Indian teenager Donnarumma Gukesh has develop into the youngest participant ever to defeat Magnus Carlsen for the reason that Norwegian turned world champion nearly a decade in the past.

Aged 16 years, 4 months and 20 days outdated, Gukesh broke the earlier report held by his compatriot Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa who defeated the world champion in February when he was 16 years six months and 10 days outdated.

“Clearly, beating Magnus is all the time particular however I used to be probably not very happy with that sport,” Gukesh mentioned in a press launch after beating Carlsen on the Aimchess Speedy on Sunday,

Carlsen had appeared in management, two pawns up after the opening, till he made a key mistake on his twenty fifth transfer that endangered his queen.

“I used to be actually disenchanted as a result of I’d seen a straightforward approach to win, however I assumed I’d seen one thing even simpler, however I hadn’t seen his menace of trapping the queen in the course of the board,” Carlsen mentioned, in accordance with Chess24.com.

As he realized the double menace to his king and queen, Carlsen spent nearly seven minutes pondering his choices on his subsequent transfer, visibly annoyed with himself.

He continued to play, spinning on his chair and shaking his head, however couldn't undo the harm and resigned shortly afterwards.

It was Carlsen’s second defeat in two days to one among India’s teenage grandmasters on the Aimchess Speedy, after he misplaced to 19-year-old Arjun Erigaisi.

On the event’s first day, the Norwegian star nearly suffered one other defeat to a different 16-year-old from India – Aditya Mittal – however survived the 2 most harmful moments to scrape a draw.

“Pragg is the one one I’ve misplaced a number of occasions to. As for Arjun and Gukesh: Arjun I’ve typically overwhelmed; Gukesh very related,” Carlsen mentioned afterwards in a press launch.

“I believe Gukesh has been extraordinarily spectacular in classical chess just lately. Maybe this speedy win wasn’t his proudest effort, though getting a win is all the time good.”

Carlsen, who started the event chasing his fifth win on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour this yr, additionally suffered a shock defeat to 18-year-old Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.