Gukesh should forget he is world champ, his rating will go up then: Nakamura

American chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura said Indian Grandmaster Gukesh D is "crumbling" under pressure. "If he can...forget that he is world champion...But sort of forget that he is never going to be Magnus Carlsen. I'm quite confident his rating will go back up," he added. Gukesh's classical FIDE rating dropped to 2703 in the August 2026 list.