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Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1-ranked chess player in the world, suffered a defeat to current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju. See Carlsen's reaction.
Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, the world's No. 1-ranked player, suffered a major defeat on Sunday to current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju. After Dommaraju made his final move ...
Magnus Carlsen attends the news conference ahead of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Paris, April 7, 2025. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes) Dommaraju was equally in shock.
Magnus Carlsen has been the world’s greatest chess player for well over a decade at this point; he has been ranked No. 1 by the World Chess Federation since 2011, and he took the World Chess ...
Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist on the table in frustration after suffering a shock loss to defending classical chess world champion Gukesh Dommaraju at the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on Sunday.
Magnus Carlsen was left seething after a dramatic defeat to Gukesh Dommaraju at Norway Chess, with the world No. 1 slamming his fist on the table before storming out of the room ...
Carlsen said the losses feel a lot worse than the wins feel great. "Unfortunately, the sad thing about chess, as in life, is that negative feelings are kind of enhanced a bit," he said.
Chess world champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat Magnus Carlsen in a classical match for the first time, causing the world No. 1 to slam the table in frustration at the Norway Chess 2025 event.
Magnus Carlsen slammed his fist on the table in frustration after suffering a shock loss to defending classical chess world champion Gukesh Dommaraju at the 2025 Norway Chess tournament on Sunday.