Viswanathan Anand

Dec 10, 2024 | thehindu.com | Viswanathan Anand

Ding Liren and D. Gukesh must have been really happy to get a rest day after playing two back-to-back decisive games. After an extremely dry Game 10, which was drawn with Gukesh equalising almost straight out of the opening, the following two games produced excitement. I was very curious what Gukesh’s approach would be for Game 11. He repeated the Reti Opening and offered a gambit on the fourth move. He had clearly come to do battle.

Dec 10, 2024 | thehindubusinessline.com | Viswanathan Anand

Ding Liren and D Gukesh must have been really happy to get a rest day after playing two back-to-back decisive games. After an extremely dry Game 10, which was drawn with Gukesh equalising almost straight out of the opening, the following two games produced excitement. I was very curious what Gukesh’s approach would be for Game 11. He repeated the Reti Opening and offered a gambit on the fourth move. He had clearly come to do battle.

Dec 10, 2024 | sportstar.thehindu.com | Viswanathan Anand

Ding Liren and D. Gukesh must have been really happy to get a rest day after playing two back-to-back decisive games. After an extremely dry Game 10, which was drawn with Gukesh equalising almost straight out of the opening, the following two games produced excitement. I was very curious about what Gukesh’s approach would be for Game 11. He repeated the Reti Opening and offered a gambit on the fourth move. He had clearly come to do battle.

Dec 6, 2024 | thehindu.com | Viswanathan Anand

After the rest day, Gukesh came ready to do battle for Game 7 of the World chess championship in Singapore. He had a new idea in a system which has been played extensively in the past and managed to navigate the middle game expertly. The position was complex and many of the moves were very hard, but Gukesh showed his exceptional ability to calculate, and found several difficult moves. I found his play from moves 23 to move 36 impressive.

Dec 2, 2024 | thehindu.com | Viswanathan Anand

The World championship in Singapore has suddenly taken on the flavour of a psychological duel instead of a purely chess match. In the last few games, we have started to see a very clear trend where Gukesh is trying to provoke his opponent into a battle, is ready to decline draws and take risks. Ding, on the other hand, seems to be pessimistic about his position and often goes for the safest line on the first opportunity, in the hope that Gukesh might overreach.