World primary Magnus Carlsen says he’s struggling to get pleasure from chess after struggling a second consecutive defeat to reigning world champion D Gukesh, who the Norwegian has described as a “weak” participant a number of occasions.
The 19-year-old Indian Grandmaster as soon as once more outplayed the previous world champion maverick, this time within the fast format on the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz match on Thursday (July 3, 2025) .
The win comes lower than a month after Gukesh surprised Carlsen within the classical format on the Norway Chess match, a match that ended with latter visibly annoyed, famously banging the desk.
“Honestly, I am not enjoying playing chess at all right now. I just, I don’t feel any flow at all when I’m playing. I’m constantly hesitating and it’s just really poor right now,” Carlsen advised ‘Take Take Take’ after the loss.
The win in opposition to Carlsen marked Gukesh’s fifth consecutive triumph within the match as he grabbed the only lead after six rounds.
“He’s doing incredibly well now (in the format). It’s a long way to go in the tournament but winning five games in a row is no mean feat,” mentioned Carlsen.
Carlsen has not often missed a possibility to voice his doubts over Gukesh’s prowess within the sooner codecs.
But he now has struggles of his personal to fear about as he has managed only one win thus far within the ongoing match. He conceded that his total efficiency within the has been sub-par.
“I have played kind of poorly the whole tournament and this time I got soundly punished,” he mentioned.
He credited Gukesh for capitalising on his possibilities whereas admitting that he discovered himself “hopelessly lost” at one level throughout the sport. Playing with white items, Carlsen was pressured to resign after 49 strikes.
“I had a very, very nice position. He took his chance to open out his position with C6. After that it was a little bit like earlier where I got short of time and I couldn’t really handle it that well and he found a lot of really good moves.” “I had one last chance at some point to bail out to something that was very, very drawish but I thought let’s continue playing and then a couple of moves later I was pretty hopelessly lost.
“It was poor however all credit score to Gukesh. He’s playing effectively and is taking his possibilities too,” he mentioned.
