Eighteen-year-old Indian man Gukesh Dommaraju shed tears of joy after becoming the youngest-ever undisputed world chess champion in Singapore on Thursday, December 12.

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With a dramatic victory Thursday in a deciding match, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest person to be crowned chess’s world champion. Dommaraju broke a record set by Russia’s ...

SINGAPORE — Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old grandmaster from India, became the youngest chess world champion in history on Thursday when he defeated Ding Liren 7½-6½ in Singapore.

A teen from India on Thursday defeated his opponent during the FIDE World Chess 2024 Championship in Singapore, becoming the world’s youngest chess champion at 18. Gukesh Dommaraju, of Chennai ...