The world champion D Gukesh began his campaign on the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with three raffles and a lonely loss, indicating that he is gradually reaching the new format. A creation of the world number one, Magnus Carlsen and the German businessman Jan Henric Buettner, the free -style chess event marks the beginning of what could be a permanent element for professional chess players despite a FIDE confrontation, The world’s chess body. Freestyle is basically a new name given to what was known as the random chess Fischer: the name attributed to the 11th Bobby Fischer world champion who advocated this format that has the chess pieces established at the beginning of the game instead of conventional chess A fixed alignment of forces on both sides.
Since there are 960 different ways to configure the board initially, Fischer’s random chess gradually became chess 960 and now sees his latest avatar called chess free from the promoters of this new format.
Gukesh, the youngest world champion in history, made his foray into the format that was doing a draw with Nodirbek Abdusattorov from Uzbekistan and lost the second game against Alireza Fireuzja of France.
In the third and fourth round, the Ace Indio was based on Levon Aronian from the United States and Javokhir Sinindarov of Uzbekistan in Weissenhaus Luxury Resort.
There are still five rounds to come in the group stage and Gukesh needs to make the cut to enter the eight of the stops of every ten participants to go to the next stage.
Meanwhile, Carlsen was also able to score two points of his first four games, losing two and winning two, while the American Fabiano Caruana and Sinindarov shared the advantage in 3.5 points after four rounds.
There was a serious fight between FIDE and free -style chess promoters on the title of the world champion that will be awarded in this format and, for now, the latter has decided to maintain the label of the world championship outside the table during the next ten months .
In a recent publication about ‘X’, previously known as Twitter, Carlsen came within reach of the demanding resignation to the president of FIDE, Arkady Dvorkovich, who famous the World Cup (Soccer) in Russia, apart from being a vice -first minister of his country . before.
Five times the world champion Viswanathan Anand retired from the event at some point after the controversy and the speculative reason could be the fact that he is the Vice President of FIDE.
While the controversy surrounding the new format, it is clear that promoters mean serious issues. Each event has a valuable 750000 USD awards per tournament for five events this year, a figure that is not common.
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