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https://www.chess.com/events/2025-saint-louis-clutch-chess-champions-showdown

The banner reads

"Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown is a rapid event featuring the world's top-three players and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju."

Happens only when your WC is not in the top three.

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sorry, i just couldn't make it.

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Even better

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/d-gukesh-ends-last-clutch-chess-fide-world-cup-carlsen-nakamura-10335345/

Where Gukesh admits:

"there are no better training partners than these three (Carlsen, Nakamura and Caruana). So the good thing is these three won’t be there in the World Cup."

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When it's news that the WC actually wins a game in the world cup ...

But jokes aside, what a graceful human

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And as expected, world champ eliminated from world cup in only round 3 game 2.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025-fide-world-cup-round-3-game-2

Boohoo