India’s D Gukesh will tackle reigning world champion Ding Liren within the World Chess Championship in November-December this yr.
This was revealed by Emil Sutovsky, the CEO at FIDE, the worldwide governing physique of chess, on social media after the 17-year-old from Chennai had emerged victorious within the Candidates match in Toronto, a prestigious eight-player occasion held to handpick the challenger to the world champion.
The venue for the competition is but to be confirmed but.
The teenaged Gukesh had edged previous a troika of stalwarts: America’s Hikaru Nakamura, and Fabiano Caruana and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi to turn into the Candidates winner on Monday. Whereas Nepomniachtchi is a two-time World Championship contender, World No 2 Caruana was competing in his fifth Candidates occasion, having received it as soon as. In the meantime, Nakamura, the World No 3, was competing in his third Candidates occasion.
Gukesh slipped to second within the open standings on the Candidates chess match 2024 after defeat. (PHOTO: FIDE/ Michal Walusza)
Regardless of their expertise, they may not forestall the Candidates debutant Gukesh from breasting the tape first. With one one spherical to go, Gukesh had raced into the lead whereas the trio had been simply half some extent behind him. Gukesh solely wanted a draw with Nakamura in his remaining recreation, offered the opposite recreation between Caruana and Nepomniachtchi additionally drew, If both of the latter had received, they’d meet Gukesh in a tiebreaker.
Gukesh grew to become India’s youngest grandmaster ever on the age of 12 years, seven months, 17 days, lacking the tag of the world’s youngest by a mere 17 days. Final yr, he overtook five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand because the nation’s prime ranked participant for the primary time after 36 years. Now, he has added one other feat to that spectacular listing by changing into the youngest ever Candidates winner and would be the youngest World Chess Championship contender when he battles Ding on the World Championship later this yr.