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Carlsen downplays victory at SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia: 'I had one good day... that turned out to be enough'
Magnus Carlsen overcame a slow start at the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, the third event of the 2025 Grand Chess Tour, ...
Chess: World No 1 Carlsen dominates in Zagreb despite another loss to Gukesh
India’s world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, 19, had created a bang, literally, last month at Stavanger when he defeated Magnus Carlsen on the 35-year-old’s home turf. Images of the Norwegian’s angry ...
Gukesh Settles for Strategic Third; Carlsen Triumphs with playful Display in Zagreb
The highly anticipated individual showdown between World Champion Gukesh and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen at the SuperUnited ...
Chess | ‘Magnus Carlsen’s respect for D Gukesh is only going to grow’ – What does it even mean?
Magnus Carlsen secured victory at the Super United Rapid and Blitz in Croatia, overshadowing reigning World Champion Gukesh ...
Magnus Carlsen and Gukesh’s Zagreb event in numbers: World champion started with 0.3% chance of winning; world no 1 lost just twice in 27 games
Before the tournament began, the Grand Chess Tour carried out 15,000 tournament simulations to predict who would win the ...
Third battle of Gukesh vs Magnus Carlsen war in Zagreb ends in 14 moves and lasts just over one minute
When both players agreed to a draw, Gukesh had 5.10 minutes on his clock, more time than he had started the game with while ...
Gukesh settles for pragmatic 3rd place; Magnus Carlsen shrugs and clucks his way to Zagreb victory
Sunday demanded different calculations with podium contention at stake, so the Indian chased stability, while the Norwegian, ...
Magnus Carlsen says he defeated Gukesh by playing ‘old-man chess’; Garry Kasparov says Indian played some terrible games today
Garry Kasparov said that Gukesh should "somehow drop this luggage" and just concentrate on playing chess at the SuperUnited ...