Dommaraju Gukesh (born 29 May 2006), better known as Gukesh D, is an Indian chess player.He is the third-youngest person in history to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in March 2019.
He learnt chess at the age of seven.
Gukesh won the Under-9 section of the Asian School Chess Championships in 2015 and the World Youth Chess Championships in 2018 in the Under 12 category.
He also won five gold medals at the 2018 Asian Youth Chess Championships, in the U-12 individual rapid and blitz, U-12 team rapid and blitz, and the U-12 individual classical formats.
He completed the requirements for the title of International Master in March 2018 at the 34th Cappelle-la-Grande Open.
Gukesh almost surpassed Sergey Karjakin as the youngest grandmaster ever,
but missed the record by 17 days.
He became the second-youngest grandmaster in history on 15 January 2019, at the age of 12 years, 7 months, and 17 days.
However, he is India's youngest as of 2022. In June 2021, he won the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, Gelfand Challenge, scoring 14 out of 19 points.
In August 2022, he began the 44th Chess Olympiad with an impressive 8 out of 8 points, helping to defeat the 1 ranked U.S.A. in the 8th match.
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