Magnus Carlsen feels that D Gukesh and the rest of the Indian talent are not going to replicate his dominance in chess at the moment after winning the Norway Chess on Friday, June 6. Carlsen won the tournament for the seventh time after a blunder from Gukesh in his match against Fabiano Caruana cost the World Champion dearly and he slipped to a loss.
This meant that Carlsen, who drew his match against Arjun Erigaisi from an unfavourable position, clinched the title. Speaking to Chess24, the World No.1 was asked if the Indian talent, including Gukesh, Erigaisi and R Praggnanandhaa will be able to replicate his success in chess. Carlsen responded by saying that it is unlikely at the moment.
The World No.1 said that Gukesh showed during the tournament that he is on track but isn’t way ahead when it comes to his development at this time.
“There is no one. No one at the moment. That’s the honest answer. There could be, but at the moment it’s not likely. I think Gukesh showed in this tournament that he’s on track, he’s doing fantastic, but he’s maybe he not way ahead of track as we may have thought. I think he’s kind of a little bit where I was 2008, 2009-ish. You can do extremely well, but you can still see that there are that great results, like they come not only with the quality of the positional play, but it’s a lot of fighting qualities. But that is what kids are supposed to do.”
“You’re not supposed to master everything at that age. As for the others, yes, they are good, but the likelihood of one of them becoming like a very clear number one. I don’t see it very clearly at the moment,” said Gukesh.
‘Every single one of them has clear flaws in their game’
Carlsen feels that the older guys are better at the moment and the young guns aren’t ready to take over just yet as they have very clear flaws in their games.
“At the moment, I still think that the older guys are better, and they’re not ready to take over like that. Every single one of them has very, very clear flaws in their games,” said Carlsen.
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