De Guckes won the World Chess Championship. He defeated China's Ding Liren in the 14th game. 18-year-old Gukesh became the youngest world champion. He also won the 8 month long FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament.
Gukesh also became the youngest (17 years) candidates champion. He became the Junior World Champion in 2018 at the age of 12. Candidates are chess tournaments. This is the last tournament of the World Chess Championship cycle. In which the player playing against the defending champion is selected.
Gukesh, a resident of Chennai, was born on 7 May 2006. He started playing chess from first class. Initially he was coached by Bhaskar Nagaiah. After this Viswanathan Anand gave Gukesh information about the game as well as coaching. Gukesh's father is a doctor and mother is a microbiologist by profession. Gukesh's celebration in 4 photos…
De Gukesh shakes hands with Ding Liren after the win.
Gukesh thanked God.
Liren stood up and Gukesh laid his head on the board and began to cry.
Gukesh's success story from here…
Started playing chess at the age of 7 Gukesh's full name is Dommaraju Gukesh. He was born in Chennai to Rajinikanth and Padma. Father is an eye, nose and throat doctor by profession while mother is a microbiologist. Father Rajinikanth was a cricketer. Playing cricket during college days. He also gave trials for state level selection, but due to family pressure, he quit cricket and started studying medicine.
Gukesh started playing chess at the age of 7. Seeing his son's interest, Rajinikanth inspired him a lot. In order not to have any problem balancing sports and studies, he was exempted from regular studies after the fourth standard. In an interview, Rajinikanth said that since Gukesh started playing professional chess, he has not taken the annual test.
Father quit his job for Gukesh's career His parents also had to sacrifice a lot to bring Gukesh to this place. When Gukesh began to excel in chess, his father, a doctor by profession, had to quit his job, in fact, he could not spare time for patients due to tournaments abroad, so he closed his clinic.
The closure of the clinic limited his income. The burden of Gukesh's tournament and family expenses fell on Mata Padma. At that time Gukesh could not get sponsors while the cost of playing tournaments abroad was very high. In such a situation, you had to take loans many times to participate in the tournament.
In an interview, Gukesh's father Rajinikanth told an incident of a foreign tournament. When they took Gukesh to Europe in 2021, it took him around 4 months to get back to India. In fact Gukesh played 13 to 14 tournaments during this period. He had to miss the flight 3 times. Apart from chess, Gukesh also likes sports like cricket and badminton. He is very fond of eating.
De Gukesh (right) pictured after winning the Candidates Chess Tournament.
Gukesh plays around 250 tournament matches in a year: Father According to his father, Gukesh plays around 250 tournament matches in a year while other players can't even play 150 matches, he slept with his father at the airport in 2020, financially good for his family. Chess tournaments were held online. In this way, travel expenses are saved. The father again found work in the hospital and his financial condition began to improve.
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