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The rise of Gukesh, episode seven

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Gukesh, Gajewski

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Gukesh
Gajewski
Game Analysis
GM Colovic, in this installment of his fantastic series about Gukesh, takes us back to the 2019 Rapid World Championship. Back then, Gukesh's rapid rating was 1779, whereas his Standard rating was a very respectable 2547. There were harsh arguments about the rating system, as it was not right to see a strong GM (2547) play with such a "low" Rapid rating. Colovic says that this is by far the wildest game Gukesh has ever played! One nice note about this game is that Gajewski is today the main second of Gukesh.