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Gukesh becomes the youngest world chess champion, created history at the age of 18, read the story
18-year-old Gukesh, the new sensation in the chess world, has surprised the world many times in his career. He has made many records at this young age. He became India’s youngest grandmaster at the age of 18 .
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh won the title on Thursday by defeating China’s Ding Liren in the 14th and final round of the World Chess Championship. By defeating Liren, he became the youngest world chess champion. He created history at the age of 18. The game started with 6.5 points. The final match also seemed to be heading towards a draw when a mistake by Liren proved costly for him and gave Gukesh the victory. After 12 years, an Indian has succeeded in winning this title.
Gukesh created history by winning this title at the age of 18 years eight months and 14 days. He broke the record of Garry Kasparov, who won the title at the age of 22 years six months and 27 days. He became the second player after Vishwanathan Anand to win the title while playing for India. This year has been memorable for Gukesh. He won gold in the Candidates Tournament and Chess Olympiad in 2024.
Gukesh has surprised the world many times
The new sensation of the chess world, 18-year-old Gukesh has surprised the world many times in his career. He has made many records at this young age. He became India’s youngest grandmaster at the age of 12 years, seven months, 17 days and missed the tag of the world’s youngest grandmaster by only 17 days. He entered the country as the top-ranked player of the country for the first time in 36 years, beating five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand last year. Now he has added another achievement to that impressive list.
With the win of the Candidates Chess Tournament, Gukesh became the youngest challenger for the world title, breaking the record set by the great Garry Kasparov 40 years ago. Former Russian great Kasparov was 22 when he qualified to clash with compatriot Anatoly Karpov in 1984. Now, Gukesh will challenge world champion Ding Liren of China later this year.
Gukesh – Photo: PTI
Gukesh stayed away from technical engines, this is how he prepared
Among the players in India who achieved stardom with less achievements, Gukesh’s identity remained hidden until he crossed the rating of 2500 in his career. He stayed away from technical engines and used computers as little as possible for his preparation. This method of Gukesh was also praised by India’s greatest chess player Vishwanathan Anand.
He once said in an interview – Gukesh is among the few players in the world with such thinking, who were not stars despite being at the top of their game. This is a very healthy approach. The important thing was that he did not adopt any kind of approach directly but took the help of his trainer. This is how it should be. A player should focus on playing skills and the trainer can give them the best information.
Vishnu got Gukesh world-class recognition
Vishnu Prasanna, who got Gukesh world-class recognition, himself admits that it was a risky step. He says that our aim was to be very precise and develop our own skill for chess. When you are playing the game, you are not always completely sure. But if you are always checking with the computer then it gives you a clear definition whether a move is good or bad. To keep that confused mindset away, we adopted that approach. It was an experiment. We did not know how it would work. I thought it would be a useful experiment and since it never stabilized, we continued with it.
Gukesh – Photo: PTI
Gukesh’s passion to become number one
Vishnu said- We did not face any problem. He was very close to becoming the world’s youngest grandmaster. It is difficult to say whether working with engines (computers) would have improved our chances or not (the record of becoming the world’s youngest grandmaster which Gukesh missed by 17 days). We felt that he was playing well. Getting so close to that record is in itself proof that he was doing well.
Apart from this, what are the aspects that make Gukesh so good? Explaining about this, Vishnu said- He is very passionate about his game. He does not think about anything else. Just focused on one goal. This is a certain passion. Of all the children I have worked with, none of them have shown the passion that Gukesh has shown. Passion about the game and the craze to become number one.
Gukesh & Viswanathan Anand – Photo: PTI
Started working with Vishnu in 2017
Gukesh started working with Vishnu in 2017, when he was barely 11 years old. However, in those early days, Vishnu inspired Gukesh to become world number one and world champion. Vishnu says- In the beginning we used to talk about becoming world champion and number one. He must have been 10 and a half or 11 years old. He is really a great athlete. We used to think about situations like playing at the top level. I used to talk to him about this myself because his ambitions were clear to me even at that age.
Gukesh’s passion for success in chess
Vishnu said that what contributed to Gukesh reaching where he is today is putting himself in a situation that is full of risk. Taking any uncertain step. Vishnu says- He never shied away from things like going to the gym, waking up early. I don’t think he enjoyed these things. He had a lot of clarity about his priorities. That is why he ignored formats like blitz and rapid and focused on classical chess. He mostly participated in over the board events. He did not participate much in online tournaments. He only did it if he needed something to play better chess. This is his passion for success in chess.
Liren and Gukesh – Photo: ICF
Gukesh D is a resident of Chennai
D Gukesh’s full name is Domaraju Gukesh and he is a resident of Chennai. Gukesh was born in Chennai on May 7, 2006. Gukesh’s father is a doctor, while his mother is a microbiologist by profession. Gukesh started playing chess at the age of seven. He was initially coached by Bhaskar. After this, Vishwanathan Anand himself gave him information about the game of chess and trained him.
Gukesh won the Under-9 category of the Asian School Chess Championship in 2015 and the World Youth Chess Championship in the Under-12 category in 2018. Gukesh has won five Gold Asian Youth Championships so far. Gukesh became the second youngest grandmaster in chess history in 2019. He almost surpassed Sergey Karjakin as the youngest grandmaster ever, but missed the record by 17 days. The record was later surpassed by Abhimanyu Mishra, making Gukesh the third-youngest player.
Gukesh and Liren – Photo: Chess.com
Gukesh emerged in the world of senior chess in 2021
In June 2021, he won the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, Gelfand Challenge, scoring 14 out of 19 points. In August 2022, Gukesh started the 44th Chess Olympiad with a perfect score of 8/8. He helped India defeat number one ranked USA in the eighth match. In September 2022, Gukesh reached a rating of over 2700 for the first time with a rating of 2726. He became the third youngest player to pass the 2700 rating mark after Wei Yi and Alireza Firouzja.
In October 2022, Gukesh became the youngest player to defeat Magnus Carlsen in the AmChess Rapid tournament since he became world champion. In the August 2023 rating list, Gukesh became the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2750. Gukesh participated in the Chess World Cup 2023. He reached the quarter-finals before losing to Magnus Carlsen. In the September 2023 rating list, Gukesh officially surpassed Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian player. This was the first time in 37 years that Anand was not the top-ranked Indian player.
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