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.jpg) Gukesh in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 May 2006 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Grandmaster (2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champion | 2024–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIDE rating | 2777 (February 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peak rating | 2794 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ranking | No. 5 (February 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peak ranking | No. 3 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed world champion, the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 12 and is the third-youngest grandmaster in chess history.
Gukesh started playing chess at the age of 7. He won the under-12 title at the World Youth Chess Championship in 2018, and multiple gold medals at the 2018 Asian Youth Chess Championship. He became an International Master in March 2017. On 15 January 2019, at the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days, he became the then second-youngest grandmaster in the history of the game, after Sergey Karjakin. He was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the men's team competition.
Gukesh won the team bronze and the individual gold medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad in 2022. In the September 2023 rating list, Gukesh became the top-rated Indian player, surpassing Viswanathan Anand's 37-year record.[1][2] In the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024, he won both team and individual gold medals. In 2024, he became the youngest winner of the Candidates Tournament and successfully challenged Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship, becoming the 18th and youngest undisputed world champion, at the age of 18 years and 195 days.[3]
- ^ Menon, Anirudh (1 September 2023). "37 years – How the world changed as Anand stayed constant on top of Indian chess". ESPN. Archived from the original on 23 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Watson, Leon (1 September 2023). "Gukesh Ends Anand's 37-Year Reign As India's Official Number 1". Chess.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Kumar, P. K. Ajith (12 December 2024). "Gukesh is youngest world chess champion". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 December 2024.