India, Feb. 8 -- Magnus Carlsen defeated Gukesh in Round 9 of the Freestyle Chess (chess 960) Grand Slam Tour in Weissenhaus, Germany in their first meeting since the 18-year-old Indian turned classical world champion in December. The Norwegian world No.1 squeezed a win out of what appeared to be an equal endgame with the Black pieces.

Gukesh did not win a single game of the nine rounds played in the rapid format during the round robin stage of the tournament. He still managed to sneak into the top eight and avoid elimination thanks to Vladimir Fedoseev and Levon Aronian ensuring themselves the bottom two spots.

Position 931 was picked at random for Round 9 of the round robin stage, with White castled long. Chess 960, also known as Fisc...