General D Gukesh Becomes Youngest FIDE World Chess Champion In History: 'Best Moment Of My Life', Says The Indian Teenager

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Date of Event: Dec 13, 2024 Source : https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/others/d-gukesh-vs-ding-liren-fide-world-chess-championship-2024-indian-teenager-makes-history-in-singapore-viswanathan-anand-reactions

D Gukesh Becomes Youngest FIDE World Chess Champion In History: 'Best Moment Of My Life', Says The Indian Teenager​

The 18-year-old Indian grandmaster D Gukesh wins the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 to become the youngest winner in the history of the sport


Outlook Sports Desk
Updated on: 12 December 2024 7:20 pm


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D Gukesh vs Ding Liren FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. Photo: X | FIDE_Chess
D Gukesh became the youngest-ever FIDE World Chess Champion after defeating China's Ding Liren in the decisive Game 14 on Thursday, December 12, in Singapore. He is only the second Indian to achieve this remarkable feat, following the legendary Viswanathan Anand. (Match Highlights)


The Indian prodigy, playing with black, made a strong start, but as the game progressed, it seemed to be heading toward a draw. However, in a dramatic turn of events, Liren, who was defending his title, made a costly blunder on the 55th move by moving his rook to f2.

Gukesh quickly capitalized, turning it into a king-and-pawn endgame. Liren, realizing his mistake, accepted defeat and resigned, allowing Gukesh to claim the special victory.
"I was totally in shock when I realized I made a blunder," said Ding Liren after the loss. But this won't stop the 32-year-old from playing the game he loves, 'I'll continue to play," he said.

For Gukesh, spotting Ding Liren's mistake was "the best moment" of his life. After the game, in a press conference, the young Indian prodigy shared his thoughts:

"We all know who Ding is. He has been one of the best players in history for several years. To see him struggling and see under how much pressure he faced, and the fight he gave... To me he is a real world champion. He fought like a true champion, and I'm really sorry for Ding and his team. I would like to thank my opponent first - this could not have been the same without him.


"I've been dreaming about this and living this moment since I was 6 or 7. Every chess player wants to live this moment - and to be one of them is .... I'm living my dream. I'd like to thank God - this whole journey - from Candidates till here could only be possible by God.

“I'm really thankful to all the people who've been by my side in this journey. I want to thank everyone, but the kind of emotions I'm feeling right now.. I'll say something stupid.”
“Representing my country.. 11 years back the title was taken away from India. When I was watching in 2013, looking into the glass box, I thought it'd be so cool to be there one day. I had the dream 10 years ago of bringing the title back. There's nothing better than this,” he added.

With this victory, Gukesh has gone past Garry Kasparov, who previously held the record

 

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India's Future Is Bright': Garry Kasparov Reacts As D Gukesh Breaks His Record To Become Youngest World Chess Champion​

Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov congratulated India's D Gukesh, who broke his record to become the youngest world chess champion on Thursday.​

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Garry Kasparov was the youngest world champion before D Gukesh broke the record.© FIDE
Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov congratulated India's D Gukesh, who broke his record to become the youngest world chess champion on Thursday. Before Gukesh's feat on Thursday, Kasparov of Russia was the youngest world champion when he won the title at the age of 22, dethroning Anatoly Karpov in 1985. Gukesh, 18, defeated defending champion Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 by winning the 14th and last classical game of their World Championship tie in Singapore. Taking to social media platform X, Kasparov said Gukesh conquered the summit of world chess.

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"My congratulations to @DGukesh on his victory today. He has summitted the highest peak of all: making his mother happy!" Kasparov wrote on X.



"Gukesh impressively surmounted every obstacle and opponent in his path, especially considering his age, and nothing more can be asked. My thoughts on the historical world championship lineage with Magnus outside are known, but that is not the story today," he added in another post.


Kasparov also labelled Gukesh's win as a stepping stone to success for Indian chess and sports in general.

"India is a nation with an unlimited pool of human talent, combined with the freedom to explore and develop it. The future is bright not only in chess. The summit has been reached and now the goal must be to raise it even higher for the next ascent. Congratulations again. Upward!" the 61-year-old explained.


By beating Ding, Gukesh became the 18th World Champion in the over century-long history of chess and the youngest after beating Garry Kasparov's record of winning the title at the age of 22 and heralding the arrival of a new king on the chess horizon.

Gukesh is the second Indian to win the World Chess Championship title, claiming the title in just over a decade after five-time Champion Viswanathan Anand had lost the title to Magnus Carlsen of Norway in Chennai in 2013. Carlsen has abdicated the crown in 2023, paving the way for Ding to beat Ian Nepomniachtchi.



In a winner-takes-all 14th and final game of the World Chess Championship match Ding had steered towards a draw after starting with Reversed Grunfeld variation of Zukertort Opening, the 32-year-old from China made a sensational blunder.

 

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Kudo to us all.

Proud of the young Indian.

 

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Too much brains we have bhai. World recognises it. Especially the west and the jews.

@Lulldapull how many Iroon khacchar Grandmasters bhai.

Obviously no world champions ...

 

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Kudo to us all.

Proud of the young Indian.

Indian teenager defeated Chinese defending champion. Our kids are doing exceptionally well. Before you can have voting right, you are world champion in a game like chess.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Some Russian is doing a lot of RR about ding ding guy throwing the game.

 

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[PakistanProud]

Congrats on this.

 

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Final winning moment of Gukesh winning world championship.

 

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Final winning moment of Gukesh winning world championship.

Nice

 

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Chinese Ding liren accepted his defeat gracefully and said that he will continue to play.

 

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I saw the whole match. Gukesh seemed dominating. Match would have drawn but some mistakes like placing placing bishop in corner and rook exchange proved costly. Gukesh had one pawn advantage which he could have converted into queen or stalemated Deng. Deng seemed under too much pressure and stood up many times to take round. Well done young boy. You did a wonderful job. One video of Gukesh is viral when he would be around 6 to 7 year old. He seen saying that he wants to be a world champion in Chess. He did it at a very young age of 18.

 

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After India became world champion in men and wemen team championship, this is an another high level event which India won.

 

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The lady playing with Gukesh said that when he will become world champion, she will say that she had played with him. It turned out to be true in a very short period of time.