Freestyle Chess Tour LIVE Score: Gukesh holds Firouzja to 91-move draw; Keymer, Carlsen, Hikaru win
D Gukesh will have one last shot at signing off on a winning note from this event when he faces Alireza Firouzja in the seventh-place playoff, the first game of which takes place on Thursday.
Gukesh loses quarterfinal against Caruana in Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus
While Gukesh is out of the quarterfinal, his time in Weissenhaus still continues, as he will battle for the fifth to eighth ranking spots, playing the loser of the Hikaru Nakamura vs Jakovhir Sindarov quarterfinal tie. Fifth place gets $50,000 and 10 points, while eighth gets $10,000 and 4 points.
Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, Weissenhaus 2025: Gukesh draws with Nakamura in 5th-8th place playoff; Keymer beats Carlsen
World Champion D. Gukesh played out a hard-fought draw with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in the first game of the 5th-8th place playoffs in the Freestyle Grand Slam chess here on Tuesday.
D Gukesh handpicked by confident Caruana for Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus quarterfinal showdown, Carlsen to face Nodirbek
In the ongoing Weissenhaus Grand Slam, the players who finish in the top-four of the standings in the preliminary round, get to select their opponents.
Gukesh resigns in 18 moves against Caruana in Freestyle Chess quarters
The reigning world champion lost the must-win Game 2 of the last eight on Monday to continue his winless run in Weissenhaus
Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, Weissenhaus 2025: Gukesh loses again to Caruana in second-leg of quarterfinal, to play 5th-8th place playoff
Classical World Champion, India’s D. Gukesh lost the second leg of the quarterfinal match against USA’s Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour in Hamburg, Germany on Monday.
Vincent Keymer stuns Magnus Carlsen to reach Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus final: 'Incredible achievement'
Vincent Keymer, who was of D Gukesh’s coaching team during World Chess Championship 2024, has defeated world number one ...
Freestyle Chess: Gukesh loses to Hikaru Nakamura to remain winless at Weissenhaus
Remarkably, Gukesh’s heart rate even when he was completely losing against Nakamura and was making moves with as little as ...
Vincent Keymer, part of D Gukesh’s World C’ship team, downs Magnus Carlsen; enters Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus finals
Vincent Keymer was one of D Gukesh’s seconds at the recent World Championship, where the Indian GM beat Ding Liren to script ...
Magnus Carlsen Favored To Win Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus
Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle ...
Jan Henric Buettner felt watching chess looked ‘incredibly boring’, so he tried to make it exciting with freestyle variant
The term ‘Freestyle Chess’ was born because Jan Henric Buettner felt that Fischer Random 960, the original version, sounded ...
‘VK is… not Virat Kohli’: Niemann, infamous for Carlsen chess cheating scandal, leaves fans in splits
I t was an epic showdown as Vincent Keymer drew to Magnus Carlsen in the second game of their Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess ...
Explained: What is Armageddon, chess tie-breaker implemented in Caruana vs Sindarov semi-final in Weissenhaus
Fabiano Caruana defeated Javokhir Sindarov via Armageddon after a 7.5 hour marathon to reach the final of the Freestyle Chess ...