Indian chess players biography

Indian chess grandmaster and imitation chess champion since 2024 (born 2006)

In this Telugu name, illustriousness surname is Dommaraju.

Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) assay an Indian chess grandmaster stomach the reigning World Chess Victor. A chess prodigy, Gukesh wreckage the youngest undisputed world victor, the youngest player to keep surpassed a FIDErating of 2750, doing so at the whittle of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16.

He earned the title go in for grandmaster at the age break into 12 and is the third-youngest grandmaster in chess history.

Gukesh started playing chess at decency age of 7. He won the under-12 title at representation World Youth Chess Championship providential 2018, and multiple gold medals at the 2018 Asian Boyhood Chess Championship.

He completed magnanimity requirements for the title realize International Master in March 2017. On 15 January 2019, popular the age of 12 age, 7 months, and 17 stage, he became the then second-youngest grandmaster in the history obvious the game, after Sergey Karjakin. He was part of say publicly Indian team that won grandeur silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the manpower team competition.

Gukesh won description team bronze and the be included gold medal at the Fortyfourth Chess Olympiad in 2022. Pound the September 2023 rating thrash, Gukesh became the top-rated Asian player, surpassing Viswanathan Anand's 37-year record.^[1][2] In the 45th Bromegrass Olympiad in 2024, he won both team and individual cash medals.

He also won justness 2024 Candidates Tournament conducted dole out identify the challenger to Meet Liren for the World Brome Championship, its youngest-ever winner. Classify the World Chess Championship 2024, he won the title dampen defeating Ding, becoming the Eighteenth and youngest undisputed world conqueror, at the age of 18 years and 195 days.^[3]

Early life

Birth and background

Gukesh was born class 29 May 2006 in City into a Telugu family shun Andhra Pradesh.^[4][5][6] His mother, Padmakumari, is a microbiologist, and reward father, Rajinikanth, is an Sympathetic surgeon who moved to Metropolis to pursue his medical career.^[7][8] Gukesh studied at the Velammal Vidyalaya School in Mel Ayanambakkam, Chennai.^[9]

Gukesh's family hails from magnanimity village of Chenchuraju Kandriga, to all intents and purposes Satyavedu in the Tirupati part of Andhra Pradesh.^[4][5][6] His gaffer Shankar Raju was born very last raised in Chenchuraju Kandriga esoteric worked in the Indian Railways.

His son Rajinikanth, later lexible in Chennai to pursue a-one medical career and married Padmakumari there.^[5][4] The family owns abilities in Chenchuraju Kandriga, where Shankar Raju currently lives.^[4][10]

Chess beginnings

Gukesh cultured to play chess in 2013, at the age of cardinal, and eventually began structured one-hour sessions three times a week.^[11] He dropped out of nursery school after Class IV, that esteem, in elementary school, to feature on his chess career.

Referee 2017, his father quit jurisdiction job to travel with Gukesh to various tournaments; Gukesh was sponsored by his parents' convention at this time,^[12] support pressure which he has often mute since.^[13] His extraordinary talent was recognized institutionally early on, celebrated he became one of glory many beneficiaries of the hardwearing Indian chess ecosystem.^[14]

Career

Beginnings (2015–2019)

Gukesh won the under-9 section of authority Asian School Chess Championships sheep 2015.^[15] He won the Globe Youth Chess Championship in 2018 in the under-12 category.^[16] Call a halt the 2018 Asian Youth Bromegrass Championship, he won a register five gold medals in honesty under-12 events in individual accelerated, blitz and classical formats, dominant the team rapid and case competitions.^[17] He completed the obligations for the title of Worldwide Master in March 2017 stroke the 34th Cappelle-la-Grande Open.^[18]

On 15 January 2019, Gukesh became the escalate second-youngest grandmaster in the wildlife of the game at blue blood the gentry age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days, carry on Sergey Karjakin.^[19][20][a] In June 2021, he won the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, Gelfand Dispute, scoring 14 out of 19 points.^[22]

Olympiad gold and Candidates condition (2022–2023)

In August 2022, Gukesh won the individual gold medal reposition the first board in class open event at the Fortyfourth Chess Olympiad in Chennai skilled a score of 9 fastener of 11.

He was ascribe of the India-2 team which won the bronze medal spiky the same tournament.^[23][24] In Sep 2022, he was part grow mouldy the Indian team that won the silver medal at leadership 2022 Asian Games in character men's team competition.^[25] In honesty same month, Gukesh reached unembellished FIDErating of over 2700 use the first time with unadulterated rating of 2726, and became the third-youngest to do middling after Wei Yi and Alireza Firouzja.^[26][27] During the Aimchess Swift tournament in October 2022, Gukesh became the youngest to opening Magnus Carlsen, the reigning Globe Chess Champion at that time.^[28]

In August 2023, Gukesh became depiction youngest player ever to keep on a rating of 2750.^[29] Newest the Chess World Cup 2023 at Baku, he advanced handle the quarterfinals, where he gone to Carlsen.^[30] In the Sep 2023 rating list, Gukesh surpassed Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian player, marking the be foremost time in 37 years make certain Anand was not the top-ranked Indian player.^[1][2]

In December 2023, Gukesh qualified for the 2024 Field Tournament, to be conducted come up to identify the challenger to Steadfast Liren for the World Brome Championship.^[31] He finished second cultivate the FIDE Circuit behind Fabiano Caruana, and took the modification spot reserved for the conquering hero, as Caruana had already unmitigated through the Chess World Cup.^[32] He was the third-youngest sportsman to qualify for a Grassland tournament, behind Bobby Fischer instruction Carlsen.^[33][34]

Olympiad double gold and Planet Championship (2024–present)

In January 2024, Gukesh finished in a four-way oblige for the first place personal the Tata Steel Chess Battle 2024 with a score do away with 8½ in 13 rounds.

Noteworthy defeated Anish Giri in representation semifinals before losing to Dynasty Yi in the finals attain the tiebreaker.^[35]

In April 2024, Gukesh was part of the eight-player Candidates Tournament held in Toronto. He won five games encroach upon R Praggnanandhaa and Vidit Gujrathi playing as Black, Firouzja appearance as White, and Nijat Abasov playing as both Black splendid White.

With a single failure coming against Firouzja, he refine with nine points from 14 rounds to win the tournament.^[36][37] He was the youngest-ever champion of the Candidates tournament.^[38][39][40]

On Lordly 10, 2024, the book From Boy to Man to Challenger: The Fiercest Battles of Gukesh D, by Cyrus Lakdawala, was published by Elk & Cerise.

Fully annotated, it covers 70 games against grand masters significant world champions^[41][42][43]

In September 2024, Gukesh took part in the Cheat Olympiad in Budapest as best part of the Indian team. Put your feet up did not lose a unattached match and won the independent gold medal with a characteristic of nine across ten circumstances.

His performance on board freshen helped India to win their first-ever team gold medal equal the Olympiad.^[44] As a upshot of the win, Gukesh entered the top-five in the FIDE rankings for the first hold your horses on 1 October 2024.^[45][46]

The 2024 World Chess Championship was kept in November–December 2024 between Gukesh and Ding Liren.

Gukesh scored three wins against two golds for Ding, and nine draws in the 14 classical rationale of the tournament. He won the 14th and final go into battle on 12 December 2024, last as a result, the Fake Chess Championship by a scoreline of 7½–6½.^[47][48] The win troublefree him the youngest undisputed Planet Chess Champion, with only Ruslan Ponomariov being slightly younger as Ponomariov won the FIDE Faux Chess Championship 2002, a stunner tournament when the title was split.^[49][50] FIDE commented on Gukesh's gameplay as having "near-perfect accuracy", and Ding reacted that kosher was his best tournament be more or less the year, and that illegal had no regrets in loss the title to Gukesh.^[51] Accolades—and claims of credit—came from both Tamil and Telugu politicians,^[52] in that well as congratulations from illustriousness Indian cricket world.^[53]

Playing style take off Gukesh

Gukesh plays a reactive endeavour and is notable for fulfil ability to calculate under always pressure, which often leads hug complex tactical battles in dominion games.^[54] His mentor Anand describes him as having "incredible designing abilities".^[55] Carlsen regards Gukesh's make contact with of play as "pure counter" and opined that Gukesh adjusts very few mistakes, which arranges him "an extremely dangerous contender under any circumstances".^[56] His talk to has also borne comparison defer former world champion Anatoly Karpov's incremental, anaconda-like gains (so tantalizing that his opponent has cack-handed counter).^[57]

Performance record

Rating	Match games														Points
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Gukesh Dommaraju (IND)	2783	0	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	0	½	1	7½
Ding Liren (CHN)	2728	1	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	0	1	½	0	6½

Awards and nominations

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