India’s D Gukesh’s struggles at the FIDE Grand Swiss continued on Thursday. The Indian Grandmaster lost his third match in a row, sparking major concerns in the chess community.
World champion D Gukesh fell to his third loss in a row at the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament on Thursday, September 11. The Indian Grandmaster lost to 16-year-old Turkish GM Ediz Gurel in the seventh round of the tournament. Having lost to USA’s Abhimanyu Mishra and Nikolas Theodorou of Greece, Gukesh was not able to make the most of his rest day at the tournament. The 19-year-old blundered a bishop in the endgame to extend his losing streak.
Gukesh, who rose to fame after becoming world champion at the age of 18, now has three points from seven outings and needs to win all of his matches to stay in contention. The form slump concerned former player turned commentator Maurice Ashley, who took to X to state that this was not the Gukesh that they knew.
The Indian Grandmaster has the knack of taking games deep and outwitting his opponents with exceptional composure, but that does not seem to be the case at the moment.
