Jun 26, 2025 11:14 AM IST
Aarit Kapil from Delhi lately got here near defeating present World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in an internet chess recreation.
Indian chess has been rising exponentially, with three GMs throughout the high class of the present reside rankings. Arjun Erigaisi is the present World No. 4, adopted by reigning world champion D Gukesh in fifth place and R Praggnanandhaa in seventh place. Now a nine-year-old Indian chess participant has been put underneath the highlight.
Aarit Kapil from Delhi lately got here near defeating present World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in an internet chess recreation. It was a part of an occasion referred to as ‘Early Titled Tuesday’, which was hosted on Chess.com. He put the Norwegian in a decent scenario of their blitz conflict and was in a profitable place at one level. However then with only some seconds left on his clock, the chess prodigy didn’t convert his benefit and the sport led to a draw.
Aarit was additionally reportedly enjoying the sport from a resort room in Georgia, the place is taking part within the U-10 World Chess C’ship. He gained each his video games within the firsy two rounds of the event.
Lately, Carlsen broke his silence when requested a couple of possible successor. He merely mentioned, “There is no such thing as a one. There is no such thing as a one in the meanwhile. That is the sincere reply. There might be, however in the meanwhile, it’s not going.”
“In the intervening time, I nonetheless assume that the older guys are higher. Each single one among them (children) has very, very clear flaws of their video games.”
Passing his verdict on Gukesh, he remarked, “I believe Gukesh confirmed on this event that he’s on observe, he’s doing implausible, however he is possibly not manner forward of observe as we might have thought.”
“I believe he’s form of little bit the place I used to be, 2008, 2009ish, the place he can do extraordinarily effectively, however you’ll be able to nonetheless see that there are that nice outcomes that come not solely with the standard of positional play, it is a number of combating qualities. That’s what children are imagined to do, you aren’t imagined to grasp all the things at that age. As for the others, sure, they’re good however the chance of one among them changing into like a really clear primary, I don’t see it very clearly in the meanwhile,” he added.
