Gukesh D: The boy who is king
Gukesh D World Chess Champion Profile: As the seven-year-old stood outside a glass box, watching two giants of the game like Anand and Carlsen battling it out, Gukesh made an audacious wish: to reach
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GUKESH D has bittersweet memories of his first brush with the World Chess Championship. The story goes that 11 years ago — when Chennai hosted the showpiece battle between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen — Gukesh and his father were at the Hyatt Regency to get a feel of the action. There were no seats left in the playing hall that day. Not that father and son cared. They were content standing at the back and watching the action from a distance.
Gukesh was only seven years old then. All these years later, he can still visualise the spectacle of Anand and Carlsen trading pieces as they sat on the other side of a soundproof glass wall.
“I was outside, looking inside the glass box. I thought to myself it will be so cool to be inside the glass box one day,” a smiling Gukesh recollected after joining Anand and Carlsen in the ranks of world champions.
2024-12-14
By
Ravindra Kumar Tiwari
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