Magnus Carlsen predicts Gukesh D failure, Anand Mahindra’s ‘AI post’ a lesson for all | Chess News

India hit a new high in chess on Monday morning as Gukesh D became the youngest player in the world to win the Candidates Championship. The 17-year-old Gukesh made history and also entered the World Championship finals. As the whole of India celebrated Gukesh’s victory, industrialist Anand Mahindra paid tribute to the teenage chess prodigy for his extraordinary “artificial intelligence”. In his post on social media, Mr Mahindra also highlighted that Magnus Carlsen was famously wrong in his predictions in the Candidates Championship.

Sharing Carlsen’s pre-match predictions, Mr. Mahindra emphasized that the Norwegian expected Gukesh to perform poorly in the match, but the Indian ended up winning the match. While acknowledging that Carlson’s predictions before the start of the game may have been correct, it was the way Gukesh continued to learn as he progressed that made him the winner.

Posts by Anand Mahindra on X (formerly Twitter).Read: “Here are Magnus Carlsen’s predictions for #candidates2024

“Maybe Magnus wasn’t so wrong when he made his prediction. I think it shows that Gukesh is evolving at an incredible rate. When he plays Ding Liren, he will evolve even further.” Gukesh’s intelligence is not Nothing artificial but AI is essentially a learning machine and so is Gukesh, no matter how old you are, keep learning!

“No other source of #MondayMotivation except @DGukesh”.

This is Magnus Carlsen’s answer to #candidate2024

Maybe Magnus wasn’t so wrong when he made his prediction.

I think this shows how incredibly fast Gukesh is growing.
By the time he played Ding Liren, he had already evolved… pic.twitter.com/CzNelO5XCD

— Anand Mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 22, 2024

With this victory, Gukesh will challenge China’s defending world champion Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship. He is now the second Indian after Vishwanathan Anand to compete for the classical world title.

Anand held the title five times between 2000 and 2013, but lost to challenger Magnus Carlsen, who has now relinquished the crown and refused to compete in the 2024 Candidates.

There are 14 games in the World Championship. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins and no more games are played. If the score is the same after 14 games, the winner will be determined by a tie-break.

With IANS input