Fresh from his victory over Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus of Turkey, world champion D Gukesh will start the final laps of the Tata Steel Masters with a match against compatriot Aravindh Chithambaram in the 11th round.

World Champion D Gukesh suffered yet another defeat in the Tatat Steel Masters, this time against Matthias Bluebaum of Germany in the ninth round while Arjun Erigaisi was forced to settle for a quick draw with Hans Moke Niemann of United States.

World Champion D Gukesh bounced back after two back-to-back losses and put it across Vladimir Fedoseev of Slovenia in the eighth round of the Tata Steel Masters on Monday.

World champion D Gukesh ended his spate of draws by defeating Thai Dai Van Nguyen of Czech Republic but overnight joint leader Arjun Erigaisi was shocked by Vladimir Fedoseev of Slovenia in the fifth round of Tata Steel Masters chess tournament.

Defending champion R Praggnanandhaa lost his second game in as many days, going down to Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan, even as D Gukesh was held to a draw by Netherlands' Jorden van Foreest in the Tata Steel Masters Chess.

Top seed ArjunErigaisiscored a convincing victory over compatriot R Praggnanandhaa,while World Champion D Gukesh played out a hard-fought draw against World Cup winner Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan in the first round of the Tata Steel Masters.

In a result that has sent shockwaves through the chess world, reigning world champion D Gukesh suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of 12-year-old Sergey Sklokin at the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025.

Magnus Carlsen has often been known to not take losses in the right spirit. The superstar chess Grandmaster quite infamously lost his cool after losing to the reigning world champion D Gukesh at Norway Chess in June

India's chess ace D Gukesh had said ahead of the FIDE World Rapid Championships that he didn't have a lot of expectations from the season-ending event in Doha.

Magnus Carlsen has continued to remain the undisputed king of chess for another year and will be firm favourite in the season-ending FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship.