D Gukesh will have one last shot at signing off on a winning note from this event when he faces Alireza Firouzja in the seventh-place playoff, the first game of which takes place on Thursday.

World champion D Gukesh managed a draw against Alireza Firouzja in the final round of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. Local favorite Vincent Keymer won against Fabiano Caruana, while Magnus Carlsen defeated Javokhir Sindarov in the third-place playoff.

Remarkably, Gukesh’s heart rate even when he was completely losing against Nakamura and was making moves with as little as three seconds on the clock was around 90 beats per minute while his American opponent’s heart was bouncing around at 145 BPM.

Vincent Keymer, meanwhile, completes a fairytale victory over Magnus Carlsen by holding the world No 1 to a draw in Game 2 of their semi-final clash.

Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated chess player since 2010, will take a seat in Weissenhaus, Germany, to compete in freestyle chess, previously known as Chess960 and Fischer Random. The starting position of the back row pieces is randomized, removing a top grandmaster’s lifetime of memorization and theory on how to open a chess game.

World Champion D. Gukesh played out a hard-fought draw with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in the first game of the 5th-8th place playoffs in the Freestyle Grand Slam chess here on Tuesday.

In the ongoing Weissenhaus Grand Slam, the players who finish in the top-four of the standings in the preliminary round, get to select their opponents.

Classical World Champion, India’s D. Gukesh lost the second leg of the quarterfinal match against USA’s Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour in Hamburg, Germany on Monday.