India, Feb. 14 -- D Gukesh was in sensational form on Thursday, as he staged a sensational comeback to hold Alireza Firouzja to a draw, in their 7th position playoff match at the Weissenhaus leg of the ongoing Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

It was a closely-fought encounter and at one point, it looked like Gukesh would crumble to another defeat, but somehow managed to stage a comeback. Fans were left surprised as Gukesh used all his grit and experience to manage a draw. The evaluation bar was in Alireza's favour for most parts of the game. Then the bar was down totally for Gukesh when Alireza had over 18 minutes left on his clock, and the Indian GM had only 47 seconds.

Gukesh had to take a defensive approach after an early blunder, bu...