Carlsen suffers first classical chess loss since table-slam outburst vs Gukesh

NEW DELHI: World No. 1 and five-time satellite champion Magnus Carlsen suffered his archetypal classical chess decision successful astir a twelvemonth aft losing to Jorden van Foreest astatine the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2026 successful Malmo connected Monday. Carlsen, who seldom plays classical chess nowadays, had remained unbeaten successful each 5 classical games since his melodramatic nonaccomplishment to D Gukesh astatine Norway Chess 2025, wherever his frustrated table-slam absorption had gone viral.

Van Foreest controlled astir of the crippled and did not let Carlsen immoderate accidental to retrieve successful the endgame. The Norwegian yet resigned aft getting trapped.“I ne'er thought it would happen. I was already resigned to making a draw, and I was OK with it.

Then abruptly I got this infinitesimal retired of nowhere, and things spiralled retired of control,” Van Foreest said. “It was a fascinating game, and I deliberation helium besides thought so. That’s wherefore we discussed it a lot.”Carlsen had spoken astir however profoundly his nonaccomplishment to satellite champion Gukesh affected him. During Norway Chess 2025, helium reacted angrily by slamming the array aft the defeat, aboriginal admitting the nonaccomplishment made him question himself.“That was a truly achy loss. Those deed a batch harder,” Carlsen had shared during an interrogation connected Pardon My Take.

“Honestly, portion of me, erstwhile I had that nonaccomplishment (to Gukesh) recently, conscionable felt it was truthful dumb and truthful unnecessary. It conscionable made maine consciousness truthful benignant of washed and useless that my thought for a fewer days was conscionable ‘I'm not definite wherefore americium I doing this.’ When I triumph it's good, but it feels benignant of normal. Then erstwhile I lose, it's just, you know, for a moment, the satellite conscionable falls apart.”Arjun Erigaisi drew his lucifer against Nodirbek Abdusattorov and remained unbeaten successful the tournament. Meanwhile, 14-year-old Yagız Kaan Erdogmus defeated Nils Grandelius, who suffered his 4th consecutive loss.