Always at their side, watching wide-eyed, observing intensely as each piece was strategically moved on the board, was their son, Gukesh. The young boy was captivated by the calculated black and ...

India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history after defeating Ding Liren 7½-6½ in a tense championship in ...

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest ever world chess champion, deepening the "love affair between Indians and chess", said The Hindu. Chess has been "around for millennia" and ...

Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju broke new ground to reach the World Chess Championship and the 18-year-old Friends fan is now hot favourite to win the title and make more history. Gukesh will be ...

In a historic achievement, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju stunned the reigning champion Ding Liren of China in a nail-biting finale to claim the World Chess Championship title. His triumph in ...

Gukesh Dommaraju will face the current champion, Ding Liren from China, later this year. This comes after he became the youngest player to win the important Candidates Tournament in Canada.

D Gukesh ended in eighth position after losing to Iranian-French grandmaster Alireza Firouzja in the second game of their seventh-place playoff match at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. World ...

TASS/. 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju from India has defeated reigning World Chess Champion Ding Liren of China to become the 18th and youngest world champion in the history of the International ...

SINGAPORE—On Thursday night in Singapore, in the fifth hour of the fourteenth game of a world championship chess match that had ground on for nearly a month, Gukesh Dommaraju noticed something ...

and he's the youngest ever to become one. 18-year-old Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju defeated Chinese defending champion Ding Liren on Thursday [[Dec 12]] snatching the title with a final score ...

GM Gukesh Dommaraju has climbed to world number three in the latest FIDE rankings after an impressive performance at the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2025. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu reentered the ...