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| Jun-07-25 | | Albertan: Meet the Parents Who Gave Up Everything To Raise Chess Star D.Gukesh: https://thebetterindia.com/443364/g... |
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Jun-22-25
 | | offramp: Gu-Kesh is very concerned about becoming a <ONE-TERMER>. Chess historians, like what I am, look at <one-term> world champions as objects of scorn, ridicule and contempt. I suppose that is two things. 👿🤬😡😠💢▶• ılıılıılıılıılıılı. 0. Euwe was the first one-termer and the second one-termer was Smyslov etc.
Botvinnik was the second first one-termer and the first first second-termer. Gu-Kesh say:
<"I would rather be a one-term Chess Champion and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Chess Champion at the cost of seeing India totally annihilated and to see this Nation to accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year chess history."> |
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Jun-22-25
 | | saffuna: I suspect the championship will start to rotate among a few younger players. If Gukesh loses a match, there's every chance he will win it back later. |
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| Aug-05-25 | | Albertan: The World Champion is going to play a short blitz match against Grandmaster Duda starting on August 7th.The match will consist of 6 games at a time control of 3 minutes/game with a two second increment.The games can be followed at: https://lichess.org/broadcast/gukes... The official website is at:
(In Polish?)
https://chessustron.pl/
The official website (in English )is at:
https://chessustron.pl/for-english/ |
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Aug-05-25
 | | Sally Simpson: Thanks the for heads up <Albertan> though I for one cannot help but think what a waste of time and effort.
Six games at 3 minutes each basically means Gukesh is flying to Katowice for 36 minutes of chess. Meanwhile, here is Duda losing in four moves. That mouse slip cost him $20,000. https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... |
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| Aug-18-25 | | metatron2: I wonder if Gukesh is the weakest ever blitz player to hold a classical WC title.
He sure is up there in the list.. |
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Aug-18-25
 | | beatgiant: <metatron2> All the classical champions from Fischer through Ding have also been top players at blitz, but before that I can only think of Capablanca, Alekhine, Petrosian and Tal having known skill at quick chess, although many of the others didn't really try it. For example, I doubt Steinitz ever played blitz, and Botvinnik claimed he did it only once. The format was historically taken much less seriously than it is today. |
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Aug-18-25
 | | HeMateMe: How would one know about the older players without chess clocks and blitz tournaments to measure their rapid skills? |
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Aug-18-25
 | | perfidious: Early on, Fischer was reputed to be no great shakes in blitz, though perhaps that view was coloured by the results in his visit to Moscow in 1958. We all know how matters went in Herceg Novi blitz (1970). |
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| Aug-26-25 | | Albertan: FIDE 2025 World Cup heads to Goa,India:
https://www.fide.com/fide-world-cup... |
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Aug-26-25
 | | WannaBe: Do the announcers shout Goooooooooooooa when a player wins? |
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| Sep-02-25 | | Albertan: An article about the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss,,”The Samarkand”, is at: https://en.chessbase.com/post/talen... Thé Samarkand event runs from September 4th to September 15th The official website for thé FIDE Grand Swiss is at: https://grandswiss2025.fide.com/ |
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Sep-15-25
 | | Freelance Assassin: Gukesh is now a World Champion who dropped out of top 10. |
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| Sep-23-25 | | Albertan: Chess Scene Very Competitive Now,Gukesh Getting Used To Role:Anand: https://www.newindianexpress.com/sp... |
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| Sep-24-25 | | Muttley101: < Albertan: Chess Scene Very Competitive Now,Gukesh Getting Used To Role:Anand: https://www.newindianexpress.com/sp... That moment when someone doesn't know how the world championship works- "CHENNAI: Five-time World chess champion Vishwanathan Anand believed that World Champion Gukesh will recover well before defending his title in the upcoming World Cup in Goa starting October 31." |
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| Sep-24-25 | | Muttley101: <saffuna: I suspect the championship will start to rotate among a few younger players. If Gukesh loses a match, there's every chance he will win it back later.> Leaving aside Gukesh's disastrous performances since becoming world champion (the blitz match against Duda was a bad choice, and the Grand Swiss could have included 4 straight losses instead of- gulp- only 3), Gukesh's qualification wasn't a dominating performance. He played great chess, undoubtedly, but it was touch and go regarding who would qualify. Qualifying for, let alone winning another candidates is not a given by any means, and being out of the top 10 means that, at least performance wise, he's being overtaken by other players. IMHO what he needs is a really good trainer to figure out what needs fixing and how. Whilst the World Cup is a great event for Gukesh, since it is seeded and the matches start with classical chess, you can bet that other players will be trying to get him into the faster time controls. Given his performance in the Grand Swiss, even his play in classical chess is unpredictable, though. |
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| Oct-26-25 | | Albertan: D.Gukesh Headlines Chess Champions Showdown,To Go Up Against Magnus Carlsen,Hikaru Nakamura: https://sports.ndtv.com/chess/d-guk... |
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Oct-27-25
 | | Petrosianic: <Qualifying for, let alone winning another candidates is not a given by any means,> He didn't say it was a given, he said "there's every chance". And, since a defeated champion is seeded into the next candidates, his qualification for that, at least, is a given. |
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| Nov-13-25 | | Albertan: World Champ to World Cup loss:Gajewski plots Gukesh revival in 2026: https://www.espn.com/chess/story/_/... |
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Nov-20-25
 | | FSR: The last two world champions haven't exactly distinguished themselves, though Gukesh's post-championship results weren't as bad as Ding Liren's. Gukesh and Ding are Nos. 10 and 16 in the world. https://2700chess.com/ Carlsen continues to be the highest rated player in the world, with a live rating over 29 points above No. 2 Nakamura. I would love to see Naka become world champion. |
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| Nov-20-25 | | fabelhaft: <since a defeated champion is seeded into the next candidates, his qualification for that, at least, is a given> The free spot for defeated champions has been abolished, which is why Ding wasn't seeded into these Candidates. |
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| Nov-21-25 | | Albertan: FiDE Announces The List Of Players Participating In The 2025 World Rapid And Blitz Chess Championships: https://www.fide.com/fide-announces... World Champion Gukesh has announced he will partipate in thèse events. |
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| Dec-11-25 | | Albertan: World Rapid and Blitz Champions To Qualify for Total Chess World Champions Tour: https://www.fide.com/world-rapid-an... |
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| Dec-12-25 | | Albertan: Grandmaster Anand is interviewed and speaks about Gukesh’s playing form thé last year, at he following link: https://indianexpress.com/article/s... |
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Dec-12-25
| | Petrosianic: Albertan: Grandmaster Anand is interviewed and speaks about Gukesh’s playing form thé last year, at he following link:> Could you paraphrase these articles in your own words, to show a) that you read them yourself, and b) that they're worth reading? The world is full of links, but if you posted them all here it would just make a clutter. |
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