Judit Polgar agrees with D Gukesh’s trainer’s ‘different from standard’ explanation after winless Freestyle Chess run

“Oh, it's completely different, because you have to have a completely different mindset, completely different priorities, both we are used to, because as I said before you cannot look for harmony really you have to see it very concretely in some ways. At the same time, sometimes you have to look at it very much from strategic point of view. So today was very interesting that there were two games where there were pawn plays, for example Gukash and there was another game also. So they pushed their pawns which was quite unusual. So it I mean, you're first of all not sure which pawn to make, right? Depends where your queen and bishop are standing. Accordingly, you think about the starting move. Depending if the a7, h7 or b7, whatever pawn could be under attack or unprotected, then you make your strategy accordingly”, she said. “So, for example, Magnus was complaining that he cannot bring out his knight to g6 because knight f3, knight g5, yesterday, right? Yes. so there are a lot of small details which we are absolutely not used to, so you do have to have an extremely fresh look. I think there are very few things that you can put together and rely on from your classical way of thinking in chess. At the same time, I feel it is very interesting this is for people who want to blow and show their creativity on every level,” she added.