Gukesh Dommaraju, 17, becomes youngest challenger for world chess title
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Published 2024-04-22
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The 17-year-old effectively wrapped up victory in the tournament after American Fabiano Caruana blundered a winning position against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi to be held to a draw.
Gukesh’s draw with the black pieces put him on 9/14 with Nakamura, Nepomniachtchi and Caruana finishing on 8.5/14. The previous youngest winner of a men’s Candidates tournament was Garry Kasparov, who was 20 when he prevailed in 1984, a year before sealing the world champion title against fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov.
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All Comments (21)
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there's no such thing called "the men's Candidates". It's called the Open section.
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The editor is definitely a disgrace. This is an open section that anyone can try to qualify and participate. It is not a men candidates and Judit Polgar has participated in the 2007 world candidates against men. Just stop trying to be correct and tell the fact
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It's not "men's candidates" it's "OPEN" Guardian SPORTS. You literally had one job.
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finally my guy smiling
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it’s the open section not men’s judit polgar it was in the open section in 2007
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FOR THE WESTERN MEDIA IF GUKI WERE A BLUE EYED BOY, SCREAMING HEADLINES WOULD BE "TEEN SENSATION TAKES THE CHESS WORLD BY STORM!".
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Very well done and onto the final frontier..classic India vs China match!!
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Lack of knowledge my gaurdian
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Lack of knowledge in gurdian
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He did it 🗣️🔥
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World championship is between India vs China makes it more interesting. Great event overall. Congratulations to FIDE and press. Enjoyed it and double happy Gukesh 👑 won it 🏆 ✌️
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It’s not the men’s candidates its the Open
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I'm Indian and I'm happy to see Gukesh reach here. In the future, I'm sure that Pragg, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit etc will also do well. But i don't want it to become like cricket today. If you pick the top ten teams in cricket, you'd probably have 5 or 6 from India and the remaining 4 or 5 from the rest of the world. It sounds great if a future candidates consisted of 6 players from India and just 2 from everywhere else, but that'd be no fun.
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India emerging as top chess destination in the world. Pragg, Gukesh, Erigaisi ,Vidit , Vaishali, made it happen 🎉
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Its the OPEN section. Please spread awareness of the true information of this tournament...
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Indian are awesome 😎 in chess ♟️
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🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
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He looks like he can be 27
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Tamil genius. Tamil Nadu the Mecca of indian chess. Tamils make things happen. Hope Indians gives due recognition to Tamils not often seen in Indian media.
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Gukesh Dommaraju has now the third highest FIDE chess rating ever (2847), after Magnus Carlsen (2882) and Garry Kasparov (2851). Huge congrats! Correction: 2847 was his performance rating for the tournament, his overall rating will be 2763 which will make him #6 in the world among active players.
