D Gukesh will have one last shot at signing off on a winning note from this event when he faces Alireza Firouzja in the seventh-place playoff, the first game of which takes place on Thursday.

While Gukesh is out of the quarterfinal, his time in Weissenhaus still continues, as he will battle for the fifth to eighth ranking spots, playing the loser of the Hikaru Nakamura vs Jakovhir Sindarov quarterfinal tie. Fifth place gets $50,000 and 10 points, while eighth gets $10,000 and 4 points.

World Champion D. Gukesh played out a hard-fought draw with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in the first game of the 5th-8th place playoffs in the Freestyle Grand Slam chess here on Tuesday.

At a meeting in Weissenhaus on Sunday, the Freestyle Chess Players Club declared the 2025 Grand Slam Tour winner will be titled 'Freestyle Chess Champion'. The club plans to establish an independent association to protect their interests,

Gukesh lost both his games in the quarter-final against Fabiano Caruana. He's so far winless at Weissenhaus. But he will now play for classification between 5-8 spot.

Classical World Champion, India’s D. Gukesh lost the second leg of the quarterfinal match against USA’s Fabiano Caruana in the 2025 Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour in Hamburg, Germany on Monday.

In the ongoing Weissenhaus Grand Slam, the players who finish in the top-four of the standings in the preliminary round, get to select their opponents.