His first glimpse of top-level chess was in November 2013, when, aged 7, he accompanied his father Rajnikanth to watch the FIDE World Championship match between Anand and Magnus Carlsen.

India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history after defeating Ding Liren 7½-6½ in a tense championship in ...

Dommaraju, 18, clinched the world chess championship by scoring 7.5 points against 6.5 from his opponent, Liren. This landmark victory cements Dommaraju's place as a rising star in the global ...

China's chess grandmaster Ding Liren (L) and India's grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju (R) prepare to compete in the final game of the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore on December 12, 2024.

Chennai-born chess grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju made history on Thursday when he became the youngest person ever to win the World Chess Championship. He entered as a challenger in the closely ...

Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was the previous youngest world champion, winning the title in 1958 at the age of 22. Wednesday's grueling game left the series tied at 6.5.

Before Gukesh's feat on Thursday, the legendary Garry Kasparov of Russia was the youngest world chess champion when he won the title at the age of 22, dethroning Anatoly Karpov in 1985.

World Chess Championship 2024: How D Gukesh became the youngest challenger to the crown. ... and is a few weeks of good chess away from being the youngest world champion the sport has ever had.

Dommaraju, 18, clinched the world chess championship by scoring 7.5 points against 6.5 from his opponent, Liren. This landmark victory cements Dommaraju's place as a rising star in the global ...

Gukesh Dommaraju, an 18-year-old grandmaster from India, became the youngest chess world champion on Thursday when he defeated Ding Liren 7½-6½ in Singapore.

"In a few years, I'd like to see myself competing seriously in the World Championship cycle ... and is a few weeks of good chess away from being the youngest world champion the sport has ever ...