{"id":59231,"date":"2025-08-25T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/not-gukesh-anand-meet-only-indian-to-beat-no-1-carlsen-in-classical-with-black\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:38:31","slug":"not-gukesh-anand-meet-only-indian-to-beat-no-1-carlsen-in-classical-with-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/not-gukesh-anand-meet-only-indian-to-beat-no-1-carlsen-in-classical-with-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Gukesh, Anand! Meet only Indian to beat No. 1 Carlsen in classical with black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karthikeyan Murali, the 26-year-old Grandmaster from Thanjavur, holds a unique place in Indian chess history. In 2023, at the Qatar Masters, he became the only Indian to beat Magnus Carlsen with the black pieces during the Norwegian\u2019s 14-year reign as World No. 1. A two-time national champion, Murali\u2019s accidental chess journey now carries one unforgettable milestone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karthikeyan Murali, the 26-year-old Grandmaster from Thanjavur, holds a unique place in Indian chess history. In 2023, at the Qatar Masters, he became the only Indian to beat Magnus Carlsen with the black pieces during the Norwegian\u2019s 14-year reign as World No. 1. A two-time national champion, Murali\u2019s accidental chess journey now carries one unforgettable&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/not-gukesh-anand-meet-only-indian-to-beat-no-1-carlsen-in-classical-with-black\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Gukesh, Anand! Meet only Indian to beat No. 1 Carlsen in classical with black<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}