Gukesh’s Interview After Defeating Magnus Carlsen

Gukesh’s Interview After Defeating Magnus Carlsen

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Gaspar, still shaken from a chaotic game, reflects on a dramatic and unexpected win. Facing a nearly lost position, he relied on tricky moves to pressure his opponent, Magnus, into a time scramble. Despite acknowledging that 99 out of 100 times heโ€™d lose, Gaspar seized the opportunity with calculated knight maneuvers and spite checks to secure victory. He highlights the unpredictability of time scrambles and the importance of resilience in desperate positions. This win marks his first classical victory against Magnus, restoring him to 50% in the tournament, though he admits it wasnโ€™t the way he envisioned it. He celebrates the triumph, calling it a lucky but significant day.

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Complete insanity. Gashesh, how would you summarize it yourself? Uh, I don’t know. I’m kind of still shaking from that game, but yeah, I mean, I don’t know. I don’t know what happened. Basically, how do you find the resilience to keep fighting and come up with the tricks in in in those kind of positions? Um, well, there wasn’t much I could do. I just it was just clearly lost. So, I was just trying to make moves which kind of were tricky for him. And luckily he got into time scramble and yeah, one thing that I learned from this tournament is time scrambles can get too much out of control. So was this a trick that you saw some moves ahead or was it just something where h that happened where you were just trying to make things a little difficult? I mean yeah this end game I was basically trying to get some kind of knight g5 and luckily after king f6 h4 I got this knight g5 and although his king comes to you know king uh walk probably is winning you know I have some spite checks and yeah I mean I mean okay 100 times I mean 99 out of 100 times I would lose but uh but you didn’t yeah just a lucky day. How important is it for you personally to take this win today? Um, yeah, for the tournament, I guess it’s quite important. I’m back to 50% in the classical and uh and also first first classical win against Magnus. I mean, not the not the way I expect wanted it to be, but okay, I’ll take it. Yeah. Right now, all we see is one zero. Good cash. Congratulations. Yeah. Thank you.

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