Having become the youngest-ever world chess champion in history, D Gukesh began his 2025 season on a positive note, at the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands on Sunday. The 18-year ...

D Gukesh shattered the record books on Thursday after winning the World Chess Championship. At the age of 18, he also became the youngest to achieve the feat after breaking Garry Kasparov's 39 ...

D Gukesh with parents during the closing ceremony of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. Credit: FIDE/Maria Emelianova via PTI Photo Gukesh, 18, trumped the Chinese in the 14-game contest ...

IMAGE: Ravichandran Ashwin and D Gukesh engage in a friendly game of chess. Photograph: Kind courtesy CSK/X It was a meeting of Chennai's finest when Ravichandran Ashwin met World Chess Champion D ...

Following his World Championship triumph, D Gukesh shaved his head and sought blessings at the Tirumala Temple in Andhra Pradesh. Gukesh won the World Chess Championship last year in Singapore ...

We could see a bloodbath.” ‘Gukesh D’ as he is known, started playing chess at the age of seven, winning various junior tournaments before becoming, at the time, the second-youngest ...

A dramatic final day of the Tata Steel Chess Masters saw R Praggnanandha win the title in sudden death, defeating world champion D Gukesh. The two Indians had a joint lead going into Round 13 ...

In 2013, D Gukesh had watched Magnus Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand, India’s first Grandmaster, to win the World Championship held in his hometown of Chennai. Eleven years later, Gukesh scripted ...

Unfazed by the evolving chess landscape, reigning world champion D Gukesh is open to compete in all formats but asserted that while freestyle chess brings excitement, the classical chess ...