Gukesh bags 1.5 points after four rounds, sits in seventh in Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour

D Gukesh Starts Moderately In Freestyle Chess Grand Slam

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signalling that he is gradually coming to terms with the new format.

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour: D Gukesh Begins With Three Draws And A Defeat

Gukesh, made his foray in to the format taking a draw with Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan before going down to Alireza Firouzja of France in the second game. The Indian ace drew with Levon Aronian of the USA and Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan in his third and fourth games of the day.

Gukesh bags 1.5 points after four rounds, sits in seventh in Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signalling that he is gradually coming to terms with the new format.

D Gukesh Starts His Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour With Three Draws and One Loss

World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three draws and a lone loss, signalling that he is gradually coming to terms with the new format. D Gukesh Starts His Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour With Three Draws and One Loss.

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