World No 2 Fabiano Caruana, has called Gukesh’s lucifer against Anish Giri successful the opening circular of the Tata Steel chess tourney in the Dutch municipality of Wijk aan Zee “absolutely insane.”
“Yesterday was perfectly insane,” said Caruana.
“I went to the gym successful the edifice and past I had my telephone showing Gukesh and Anish and it was astatine precisely astatine this infinitesimal erstwhile helium could play eBishop earlier and it showed that helium was winning and I couldn’t similar cipher everything of people past helium played Bishop earlier which didn’t look similar an casual move.
“But past I realised that my bosom complaint was going up and I was conscionable getting excessively worked up and it wasn’t due to the fact that I was connected the treadmill. After the crippled was implicit I calmed down a bit.”
In different games involving Indians, Gukesh managed to play retired a gully against World No 2 Fabiano Caruana. The effect means that Gukesh has inactive not been beaten since becoming satellite champion.
After the extremity of circular 3, Caruana is placed astatine associated 2nd with Gukesh.
Praggnanandhaa is starring the points table with 2.5 points. He shares it with Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
Standings aft Round 3
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