India, Oct. 30 -- D Gukesh ended bottom of the standings at the recently held Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown despite topping the leaderboard on Day 1. Magnus Carlsen won the exhibition event and also defeated Gukesh in five out of six games. One game ended in a draw.

The event saw Fabiano Caruana come second, and Hikaru Nakamura finished in third position. Speaking on his performance at the event, Gukesh said, "Obviously not great. The first day was quite promising. I started off quite well, but the second and third days were just completely off. At some point, it was very tough to start getting wins, and when it's like that against this opposition, it usually goes downhill quite fast."

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