World champion D Gukesh aiming against Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle Grand Slam Chess

After losing the opening game, World champion D Gukesh will aim to make a comeback against America's Fabiano Caruana in the quarter-finals of the Freestyle Grand Slam chess tournament in Hamburg, Germany on Tuesday. On Sunday, in 'normal time control', Gukesh lost to Caruana in the first quarter-final game. The Indian will now be under pressure playing with black pieces and to equalize the match, he will have to defeat Caruana at any cost. In freestyle chess, pawns are immovable. While the position of the rest of the pieces can be changed in 960 ways.

Magnus Carlsen also registered an easy win against Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov. While France's Alireza Firouzja had to face defeat against Germany's Vincent Keymer. In other quarter-final matches, Uzbekistan's Jevokhir Sindharov played a draw with America's Hikaru Nakamura. At the same time, in the match for the ninth place, America's Levon Aronian defeated Slovenia's Vladimir Fedoseev.