This victory has come days after D Gukesh handed a defeat to Magnus Carlsen in the classical format at the Norway Chess tournament. The win also helped Gukesh to register his fifth victory in the ongoing tournament. The Norwegian also heaped praise on Gukesh by saying he is doing incredibly well
Magnus Carlsen (Pic: File Pic)
Following the second consecutive defeat against reigning world champion D Gukesh, Magnus Carlsen said that he is struggling to enjoy chess.
It comes after the 19-year-old Indian yet again defeated the Norway-born, but this time in the rapid format at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz tournament on July 3.
Following the loss, Carlsen made a shocking revelation.
"Honestly, I am not enjoying playing chess at all right now. I just, I don't feel any flow at all when I'm playing. I'm constantly hesitating and it's just really poor right now," Carlsen told 'Take Take Take', a chess app.
The win also helped Gukesh to register his fifth victory in the ongoing tournament. The Norwegian also heaped praise on Gukesh by saying he is doing incredibly well.
This victory has come days after D Gukesh handed a defeat to Magnus Carlsen in the classical format at the Norway Chess tournament in June. After the loss at Norway Chess, the 34-year-old was seen banging the table out of frustration.
"He's doing incredibly well now (in the format). It's a long way to go in the tournament but winning five games in a row is no mean feat," said Carlsen after his recent loss to the Indian grandmaster.
Carlsen has rarely missed an opportunity to voice his doubts about Gukesh's prowess in the faster formats. But he now has struggles of his own to worry about as the Norwegian has managed just one win so far in the ongoing tournament. He conceded that his overall performance in the game has been sub-par.
"I have played kind of poorly the whole tournament and this time I got soundly punished," he said.
He credited Gukesh for capitalising on his chances while admitting that he found himself lost during the game. Carlsen was also in a situation where he was forced to resign after 49 moves.
"I had a very, very nice position. He took his chance to open out his position with C6. After that it was a little bit like earlier where I got short of time and I couldn't really handle it that well and he found a lot of really good moves," said Carlsen.
"I had one last chance at some point to bail out to something that was very, very drawish but I thought let's continue playing and then a couple of moves later I was pretty hopelessly lost. It was poor but all credit to Gukesh. He's playing well and is taking his chances too," he concluded.
(With PTI Inputs)
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