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World no 1 Magnus Carlsen defeated world champion Gukesh Dommaraju in both their games on day 2 of the Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown exhibition event before defeating Hikaru Nakamura twice and losing his games to Fabiano Caruana to surge into top spot in the four-player event. Magnus Carlsen is the world number one chess player and the highest ranked player in the history of the game. The Norwegian Grandmaster is a five-time World Chess Champion, holds the highest rating in history (2882) and boasts the longest unbeaten streak in classical chess. Magnus Carlsen won Clutch Chess Champions Showdown 2025 with two games to spare. The World no.1 started the final day with two wins against the World Champion, D Gukesh. Then he defeated Fabiano Caruana in consecutive games to win the event. The last two games against Hikaru Nakamura was immaterial, so he just drew them. Carlsen scored 25.5/36. Caruana secured second place scoring 16.5/36. Nakamura third 14/36 and Gukesh fourth 10/36. Carlsen once again asserted his dominance once he got ... Some of the best chess players have descended upon Goa for the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, but world No 1 Magnus Carlsen is nowhere to be seen. We explore why Carlsen has skipped the trip to India.
