FIDE Grand Swiss: Gukesh’s Fide Grand Swiss second consecutive defeat

Samarkand. World champion D Gukesh’s performance was nothing special in the FID Grand Swiss Chess tournament. In the sixth round on Tuesday, he suffered a second consecutive defeat in the tournament against Nicholas Theodoro of Greece. After losing to America’s youngest Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra in the previous round, Gukesh faced another disappointment despite being in a draw. He put excessive pressure which caused complications and caused it to lose it.

On top board, Arjun Arigasi had no problem in stopping the Param Maghasudlu of Iran running on top while playing with black pieces. However, Maghasudlu is leading a single lead with five points. Arigasi is half a point behind them. Abhimanyu Mishra, Germany’s Mathius Blueam and Nihal Sarin are jointly in this very important and the strongest Swiss tournament in the world with Arigasi after half a phase.

The day the top seed Grandmaster R Pragyananda failed to penetrate the defense of Rauf Mamdov of Azerbejan. That day his sister R Vaishali defeated Ulwia Falieva and maintained a joint lead with Katrina Lagno in the women’s category. Katrina had to work hard to defeat Dinara Wagner. Gukesh will have to win at least four of the remaining five arms to stay in the competition.

On Wednesday, with the only rest day, the competition for the top two places in both classes and the prize money of $ 855000 will start again on Thursday. The top two players from each category will make a place in the 2026 candidates tournaments, which will decide the player who challenged the next World Championship match in both men and women.