‘Co-champions maybe?’: Jokes about Magnus Carlsen, Nepo deal as Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh fought in tiebreak

For Pragg, the rubric was hard-earned. He archetypal crushed it retired for implicit six hours successful the classical format against Vincent Keymer. Then helium had to play 3 accelerated games against Gukesh aft hardly a 30-minute break.

World champion Gukesh reacts aft losing the Tata Steel chess rubric to Praggnanandhaa successful the accelerated tiebreaks. (Photo: Jurriaan Hoefsmit via Tata Steel Chess)

This led to references were made to the Carlsen-Nepo deal, arsenic radical joked astir however the 2 Indians could person besides taken the casual mode retired and played retired draws till they shared the title.

“It’s precocious successful Chennai.. co-champions maybe?” Joked Anish Giri who was besides a portion of the masters section.

“‘In lawsuit of a tie, determination volition beryllium abrupt decease blitz games played till idiosyncratic wins’: ripe rules for a ‘we tin conscionable play abbreviated draws until they springiness up’. PS – conscionable kidding,” wrote GM Srinath Narayanan connected X.

The tiebreak rules for Tata Steel chess tourney said that if 2 players had the aforesaid fig of points aft 13 games, they would play a accelerated tiebreak lucifer of 2 games. If those 2 games did not determine a winner, past determination would beryllium abrupt death, with players playing azygous games to determine the winner.

Pragg blundered a rook to manus Gukesh a triumph with achromatic pieces successful the archetypal crippled successful the tiebreak. Then, helium defeated Gukesh to unit the substance into abrupt death! In the abrupt decease game, Pragg defeated Gukesh again to assertion the much-coveted Tata Steel chess title.