The Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge commenced, featuring rapid round-robin games to set the stage for the classical knockout phase. World Champion Ding Liren lost to Fabiano Caruana after a critical blunder, while Gukesh D secured a victory over Magnus Carlsen in the second round. Vincent Keymer leads as the only unbeaten player after Day 1, with Ding Liren yet to win a game. The tournament's innovative format includes a starting position no.49 and a 10-minute pre-game discussion among players. Live commentary is provided by Peter Leko and Tania Sachdev, with notable games including Firouzja's win over Gukesh and a 100-move draw between Aronian and Abdusattorov. Magnus Carlsen achieved his first win against Levon Aronian, and both Carlsen and Alireza Firouzja made the unusual move of castling on move 1.
The entire game of 17-year-old @DGukesh beating Magnus Carlsen at FreeStyle Chess Rapid Playoffs with commentary by Sagar Shah. https://t.co/eU8mKFJxvZ https://t.co/TYehUr1OSN
Weissenhaus @Chess_Freestyle G.O.A.T. Challenge R1-4: @DGukesh beats Carlsen, Aronian and Liren to make a dream start https://t.co/PZOEPYu5fy
Gukesh: "I really love 960, apart from the results. Just thinking from move 1 is something that I really enjoy!" #FreestyleChess
Vincent Keymer is the sole leader and only unbeaten player after Day 1 of the #FreestyleChess GOAT Challenge, while World Champion Ding Liren is yet to get off the mark! https://t.co/Cr9C70gxrz
Vincent Keymer finds 37.Qb8! to finish off Fabiano Caruana and keep the sole lead after Day 1! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/I6eLjCxMWR
Vincent Keymer has been incredibly sharp today! https://t.co/1suPi9ahcy #FreestyleChess https://t.co/YSy4qDndcY
Alireza Firouzja knows he's lost as he trades down into a bad ending against Nodirbek Abdusattorov! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/CbaFkimFcz
Magnus Carlsen defeats Levon Aronian for his first win in the #FreestyleChess Goat Challenge! https://t.co/YATeGcLMKa https://t.co/oBlzL8Q8wJ
Gukesh gives up the exchange and, unwisely, Ding Liren accepts by grabbing the rook on a1! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/Zpo6JnjWMe
Levon Aronian is on the ropes vs. Magnus Carlsen β and his crucial mistake may have been on move two π€― 2...b5? #FreestyleChess https://t.co/QzOKDt2tmK
Magnus Carlsen's long time trainer @PHChess visits the playing venue of @chess_freestyle. He is joined by his wife @VCmilyte, who is a Grandmaster and a Lithuanian politician and their son Marus. What a beautiful family. Photo: Amruta Mokal https://t.co/UMp2A3AzWp
"We're basically playing the Benko Gambit without having to sacrifice any pawn!" Leko on another tough position for Ding, this time vs. Gukesh #FreestyleChess https://t.co/RJSeYVMi6l
Firouzja decides to play not only Chess960 but Chess960 with only pawn pushes! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/WDkIIQsQbm
You can't stop some people playing the London! https://t.co/1suPi9ahcy #FreestyleChess https://t.co/nZrPEz3Xak
The multi-colored jackets are a vibe... #FreestyleChess https://t.co/r9BD0tzYf2
"I feel this is a very challenging position!" says Peter Leko about the final starting position of the day #FreestyleChess https://t.co/JYVMLoO2b0
Freestyle Chess or whatever π https://t.co/CaaUGEPybS
Vincent Keymer leads with one more round to play today β heavyweights Carlsen, Aronian and Ding Liren are all yet to score a win! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/NSIqxTZ5wJ
It's been a great day for Vincent Keymer, who's drawn with Magnus then beaten Aronian and now Ding Liren! The World Champion has started with 3 losses... #FreestyleChess https://t.co/TDm3scoHOd
Vincent Keymer is close to a 2nd win in a row, against Ding Liren! https://t.co/rAU5riVh1G #FreestyleChess https://t.co/QqV208vcBt
Firouzja plays 20...d5!, which seems to solve most of his problems! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/a1j9nnxQln
Tactics you don't normally see on move 8! https://t.co/TxhG8CxsGp #FreestyleChess https://t.co/h0pLjEJ2xu
Both Magnus and Alireza castled on move 1! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/voAKOQuNMn
Gukesh starts the third game with castling on the first move! #FreestyleChess Watch: https://t.co/EuUw0TIUAv https://t.co/54wNbJuyms
Carlsen and Firouzja meet again after their #ChessableMasters final, but with a twist! https://t.co/O8sZRxNQPu #FreestyleChess https://t.co/beaP3eVlKO
What scenes we have from the venue of the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge. Position no.292 is put out for all the players from the 960 positions! They have 10 minutes before the game begins. World Champion Ding Liren sits alone and tries to figure things out. The⦠https://t.co/EeAbgj0fS5
The Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Challenge is live, featuring some of the finest chess players in the world, including Magnus Carlsen, competing. https://t.co/aNHGu1uTI8 https://t.co/BrpI01ZMUj
A bruising Round 2 sees both the current and former World Champions defeated! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/5svlafLQQJ
The G.O.A.T. Challenge is proving tough for the GOAT in question, as Gukesh comes back from a lost position to take down Magnus in Round 2! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/06Yk97UEjZ
2024 isn't getting any better for World Champion Ding Liren, as he also loses in Round 2, to Abdusattorov! https://t.co/99TzUGA1ou #FreestyleChess https://t.co/zhPEozhQfy
Magnus Carlsen with Miss Angola International - Teresa Sara at the Wissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024. https://t.co/kbqQz9jSWG
Gukesh finds the only defense vs. Carlsen, but as Niclas Huschenbeth pointed out before it happened, it looks "very, very dire" for White! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/QzdHvOIo2x
"The shock value is massive of this move!" says Tania, as Magnus castles "short" with his king jumping from c8 to g8 against Gukesh! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/JkQmVIzZQb
Peter Leko says Aronian told him and Keymer before the games: "People have not yet appreciated that in FischerRandom Chess the Dutch Defence is really strong! And what do we see now... 1.d4 f5!" #FreestyleChess https://t.co/imgXChqfdc
"It hurts my eyes to look at this position for Black" says Peter Leko, though he does point out that if Ding gets to castle "short" his king will jump from c8 to g8! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/ARsjAU70ZM
Round 2 has begun! https://t.co/TX1Lf1u8zR #FreestyleChess https://t.co/gbwkRmXZQH
And Round 2 has begun! https://t.co/TX1Lf1u8zR #FreestyleChess https://t.co/2Nw8M122uH
For Round 2 of #FreestyleChess the rooks are in their "right" place, but that's as far as the normality goes! https://t.co/K7iultceFd https://t.co/dWkOFAmaLt
Feels unfair... #FreestyleChess https://t.co/wpFjhz4D8r
Firouzja and Caruana both won with Black to take the early lead in the #FreestyleChess GOAT Challenge Rapid, but there are still 3 more rounds to go today (and 3 tomorrow)! https://t.co/42vhOIhsPa
Aronian-Abdusattorov was a fantastic fight, but after both players missed wins, it ends in a 100-move draw! https://t.co/CwieV6ChKz #FreestyleChess https://t.co/WFgsP2OZIi
It was a tough game for World Champion Ding Liren as he blundered an entire piece in a relatively equal position. It happened in the first round of the Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024 against Fabiano Caruana. Ding Liren's comeback to chess has not been an easy⦠https://t.co/69sFpd09MM
It seemed Abdusattorov was playing an inspired game, but Levon held on... and is now simply a piece up! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/XahPGSrErA
Nodirbek moves in for the kill... but the computer says Levon is even better after the only move not to lose: 26.Ke3! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/ntvVmRfxdU
A happy Firouzja opens with a convincing win over Gukesh! https://t.co/ygnjPPCiGR #FreestyleChess https://t.co/oc2GlqUj9a
The World no. 1 and German no. 1 start with a draw! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/aJk9XIVVTl
Fire on board in Aronian-Abdusattorov! π₯ #FreestyleChess https://t.co/zzEPER6iLY
Ouch! Ding Liren had navigated the opening, then blunders everything in one move with 26.Be5?? Can you see Caruana's killer blow? https://t.co/KkW0WpNCJT #FreestyleChess https://t.co/VyEce3Nz7E
Nodirbek demonstrates the party trick of castling by only moving the rook! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/WWsq503brc
Abdusattorov correctly sacs his bishop! https://t.co/CwieV6ChKz #FreestyleChess https://t.co/r6qwS6XVJm
Crazy position β Crazy format β Crazy stream β Crazy camera angles β and a new commentator today! β Watch the coverage of #FreestyleChess by DQ and Sahil Tickoo β‘οΈ https://t.co/DjnD2KRseC https://t.co/iDnNsiL0oa
With jackets like this, it's no surprise Gukesh-Firouzja has had the most early action! π₯ #FreestyleChess https://t.co/uKcwLGlkU3
Firouzja has sacrificed an exchange and is already better vs. Gukesh! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/Fjeb7Jtf9B
3...Bxg2! was Caruana's best move vs. Ding Liren! No one said it was going to be easy... https://t.co/KkW0WpNCJT #FreestyleChess https://t.co/lClVjm0lYm
1.e4, Best By Test! #FreestyleChess https://t.co/GG2wZOYpYt
Magnus and Levon spend 10 minutes discussing position 49 before facing their opponents π #FreestyleChess https://t.co/pFh7WE46Lu
It's chess, Jim, but not as we know it... #FreestyleChess https://t.co/MLVytLghuL
Don't adjust your sets! The players with the white (or black) pieces get to discuss with each other for 10 minutes before the games begin #FreestyleChess https://t.co/9nkTFtOsfH
The first round gets the starting position no.49 at @Chess_Freestyle G.O.A.T. Challenge https://t.co/JSzeoYaawv
Position 49 is drawn for Round 1 of the #FreestyleChess GOAT Challenge! https://t.co/uOVkUMsQE2
Peter and Tania are LIVE now! https://t.co/TX1Lf1u8zR #FreestyleChess https://t.co/NvmOQDWTMF
The #FreestyleChess GOAT Challenge begins with a rapid round-robin to decide the pairings for the classical knockout βΒ Carlsen & Ding Liren will meet for the 1st time since the World Championship title changed hands in tomorrow's Round 5! https://t.co/TX1Lf1u8zR https://t.co/tWu2rE5Mze
Need more chess to watch? π The Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge starts TOMORROW π₯ https://t.co/bsEucKi5bG
π¨π¨π¨ Your attention please! π¨π¨π¨ π Gukesh battles the strongest chess players of the world from tomorrow at the WeissenHaus Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T Challenge! πΊ Starting tomorrow, catch live commentary on our channel from 5:30pm IST β https://t.co/BFjAc0syll