D Gukesh opens up on future after changing into chess world champion: ‘Major purpose I’ve had is being the perfect on the planet’

D Gukesh fulfilled his dream of changing into a chess world champion together with his victory over Ding Liren within the FIDE World Championship final week. The 18-year-old from Chennai, who
broke Garry Kasparov’s 39-year-old document to
change into the youngest world champion within the sport’s historical past, defeated Chinese language GM Ding by a 7.5-6.5 scoreline following his 58-move victory in Recreation 14 on Thursday.

Gukesh shall be celebrating the achievement with household and associates for someday now, and also will be attending a lot of felicitations in India within the days to come back. As for his future assignments, the teenager chess prodigy had acknowledged that he’s unlikely to take part within the World Fast and Blitz Championships that shall be happening in New York Metropolis from 26 to 31 December.

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Gukesh, did, nevertheless discuss life after his triumph within the World Championships, saying that whereas changing into a world champion is each bit an unbelievable feat, he’s not at all accomplished in terms of ticking off all of the containers in his profession test checklist.

“I imply as a child I wished to change into world champion as a result of I believed it meant the perfect participant on the planet. It’s nonetheless a really particular achievement for me. Going by the entire course of – Candidates, World Championship – it’s very worrying and I needed to put quite a lot of effort into it.

“So it means lots to me, however the primary purpose I’ve had is being the perfect on the planet and attaining my full potential. And if that’s sufficient to change into the best of all time, then yeah positive,” Gukesh mentioned in an interview with FIDE.

Gukesh named world No 1 Magnus Carlsen, who had reigned as world champion for a decade earlier than deciding to not defend his title final 12 months, and a bunch of different main names within the sport as a supply of motivation for him to proceed working arduous and striving in the direction of perfection.

“Magnus and all the highest guys – Fabi (Fabiano Caruana), Hikaru (Nakamura), Nepo (Ian Nepomniachtchi)… all these superb guys, they’re simply motivation for me to maintain working arduous. I suppose that is the fantastic thing about competitors,” Gukesh added.

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The World Championship was the icing on the cake for Gukesh, who had been having a red-hot run since dethroning his mentor and five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand because the top-ranked Indian chess participant after 37 years in August final 12 months.

Gukesh would go on to win the Candidates Match in April this 12 months, additionally changing into the youngest winner within the match’s historical past, earlier than enjoying a starring function in India’s historic marketing campaign within the forty fifth Olympiad in Budapest, by which they gained gold within the ‘Open’ in addition to ‘Ladies’ classes.