World Champion D Gukesh`s quest for a victory continued as Hikaru Nakamura defeated him in the tie-breaker of the 5-8 place play-off at the Freestyle Chess Grand slam on Wednesday. Gukesh was outsmarted in the second game of the tie-breaker after gaining a good advantage with his white pieces. Gukesh made one tactical error and Nakamura pounced on it to reach the fifth-place play-off with Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan.

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