Gukesh Dommaraju

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Gukesh Dommaraju
Alireza Firouzja - Gukesh D, Candidates Tournament 2024 03 (cropped).jpg
Gukesh in 2024
Full nameGukesh Dommaraju
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
Born (2006-05-29) 29 May 2006 (age 18)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Title Grandmaster (2019)
FIDE   rating 2794 (October 2024)
Peak rating 2794 (October 2024)
Ranking No. 5 (October 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 5 (October 2024)
Medal record
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Men's chess Chess pictogram.svg
World Championship
2024 Singapore Men's individual
Olympiad
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Chennai Open individual board 1
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Budapest Open team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Budapest Open individual board 1
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Chennai Open team
Asian Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Men's team
World Youth Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Online Boys' individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Santiago de Compostela Boys' individual
Asian Youth Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 ThailandIndividual rapid
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 ThailandIndividual blitz
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 ThailandTeam rapid
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 ThailandTeam blitz
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 ThailandIndividual classical

Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006), also known as Gukesh D, is an Indian chess grandmaster. [1] He is the third-youngest grandmaster in history, the third-youngest to reach a chess rating of 2700, the youngest to reach a rating of 2750, the youngest Candidates Tournament winner and the youngest contender to compete for the World Championship. [2] He has won one team and two individual gold medals at the Olympiad as well as one bronze team medal. He is a silver medalist at the Asian Games. [3]

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Gukesh is a multiple-gold medalist at the World Youth Championship and the Asian Youth Championship.

Early life

Gukesh was born on 29 May 2006 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. His father, Rajinikanth, is an ear, nose and throat surgeon, and his mother, Padmakumari, is a microbiologist. [4] [5] He learned to play chess at the age of seven. [6] He studied at the Velammal Vidyalaya school, Mel Ayanambakkam, Chennai. [7]

Gukesh began practicing and playing chess in 2013 for one hour, three days a week. He would then participate and play tournaments on weekends after his good performance was acknowledged by his chess teachers. [5]

Career

2015–2019

Gukesh won the Under-9 section of the Asian School Chess Championships in 2015 [8] and the World Youth Chess Championships in 2018 in the Under 12 category. [9] He also won five gold medals at the 2018 Asian Youth Chess Championships in the U-12 individual rapid and blitz, U-12 team rapid and blitz and U-12 individual classical formats. [10] He completed the requirements for the title of International Master in March 2017 at the 34th Cappelle-la-Grande Open. [11]

On 15 January 2019, at the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days, Gukesh became the then second-youngest grandmaster in history, [12] only surpassed by Sergey Karjakin by 17 days. [13] The record has since been beaten by Abhimanyu Mishra, making Gukesh the third-youngest. [14] [15]

2021–2022: Olympiad individual gold

In June 2021, he won the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, Gelfand Challenge, scoring 14 out of 19 points. [16] In September 2022, Gukesh reached a rating of over 2700 for the first time, with a rating of 2726. [17] This made him the third-youngest player to pass 2700, after Wei Yi and Alireza Firouzja. [18] In October 2022 during the Aimchess Rapid tournament, Gukesh became the youngest player to beat Magnus Carlsen since the latter became World Champion.[ citation needed ]

2023

In the August 2023 rating list, Gukesh became the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2750. [19] Gukesh participated in the Chess World Cup 2023 and reached the quarter-finals before being defeated by Magnus Carlsen. [20] In the September 2023 rating list, Gukesh officially surpassed Viswanathan Anand as the top-ranked Indian player, marking the first time in 37 years that Anand was not the top-ranked Indian player. [21] [22] In December 2023, with the end of the FIDE Circuit, Gukesh qualified for the 2024 Candidates Tournament. [23] Gukesh had placed second in the Circuit, but Fabiano Caruana, the winner, had already qualified through the World Cup. [24] He became the third youngest player to play in a Candidates tournament, behind Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen. [23] [25]

2024: Candidates winner and Olympiad gold

Gukesh (left) playing Alireza Firouzja at the 2024 Candidates Tournament Alireza Firouzja - Gukesh D, Candidates Tournament 2024 01.jpg
Gukesh (left) playing Alireza Firouzja at the 2024 Candidates Tournament

In January 2024, Gukesh participated in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024. He scored 8.5/13 to finish in a 4-way tie for first place. In the twelfth round, he had a winning position against R Praggnanandhaa, but blundered into a threefold repetition. In tiebreaks, he defeated Anish Giri in semifinals but lost to Wei Yi in the finals. [26]

In April 2024, Gukesh participated in the 2024 Candidates Tournament. Gukesh won games against R Praggnanandhaa and Vidit Gujrathi playing as black, Alireza Firouzja playing as white, and Nijat Abasov playing as both black and white. [27] His only loss was his game with black against Firouzja. This gave him five wins, one loss and eight draws, for a score of 9/14, winning the tournament and qualifying for the 2024 World Championship match against Ding Liren. [28] He is the youngest ever winner of the Candidates. [29] [30] [31]

In September 2024, Gukesh took part in the Chess Olympiad in Budapest as part of the Indian team. He put up a dominant performance on board one, defeating 8 grandmasters (including Wei Yi, Parham Maghsoodloo, and Fabiano Caruana) and finishing with 9 points in 10 rounds. He had the highest performance rating of 3056 among all players in the tournament. His performance earned him an individual gold medal on board one, and helped India to their first ever team gold medal at the Olympiads. [32]

Gukesh entered the FIDE world top-five for the first time on 1 October 2024. [33] [34]

Awards

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