D Gukesh reveals ‘cool second’ when he first met Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand

Reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju opened up on the primary time he met Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand, whom he considers his idol and ‘Guru’. Gukesh is a part of
Indian’s golden technology of chess stars that additionally contains Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa amongst others, and five-time world champion.

And former world No 1
Anand has performed a significant function in shaping this group of world-class gamers, who had starred in India’s historic golden sweep on the Chess Olympiad final yr and have additionally shone in quite a lot of different main occasions.

Gukesh reveals ‘cool second’ when he first met ‘Vishy sir’

“The primary time I met Vishy sir was, met perhaps a powerful phrase, however he had come to my college, and I used to be one of many college students, who form of welcomed him or one thing like that. That was a cool second,” Gukesh, who had studied on the Velammal Vidyalaya in Chennai, mentioned in a video posted by Freestyle Chess.

Gukesh was among the many first batch of gamers, together with Praggnanandhaa and his sister R Vaishali, to hitch the WestBridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA), the Soviet-style chess academy based by Anand in December 2020. Underneath Anand’s tutelage, the 18-year-old Grandmaster would go on to chart a meteoric rise within the sport and turn out to be

Gukesh would go on to surpass his mentor, ending Anand’s 37-year reign because the top-ranked Indian chess participant in August 2023. The yr 2024 would show to be much more particular for him as he would turn out to be the youngest champion within the historical past of the Candidates Event, star in India’s Olympiad triumph in Budapest.

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He would then fulfill a lifelong dream by
defeating Chinese language GM Ding Liren in Singapore in December, turning into solely the second Indian after Anand to be topped world champion.

Extra not too long ago, Gukesh completed runner-up on the Tata Metal Chess event in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands adopted by an underwhelming run within the opening occasion of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Weissenhaus, Germany.