Watch: D Gukesh’s teary-eyed celebration after defeating Ding Liren and turning into chess world champion

The ultimate Classical sport of the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship between Ding Liren and D Gukesh appeared headed for a stalemate. Ding would have been relishing the prospect of dealing with Gukesh within the tie-breaks, which might have been contested within the extra fast-paced Fast and Blitz codecs, when a dramatic flip of occasions resulted within the
18-year-old Indian GM clinching Sport 14 and turning into the 18th chess world champion.

Gukesh had refused to surrender on the potential of a win regardless of the looming draw, and pounced on the golden alternative that was handed to him on a silver platter by Ding after the Chinese language GM dedicated a Championship-defining blunder in his fifty fifth transfer. In an area of three strikes, Gukesh was capable of pressure a rook and bishop trade on the board and cut back Ding to only a king and a pawn to pressure a resignation from the 32-year-old.

As It Occurred |
D Gukesh defeats Ding Liren in Sport 14 of World Chess Championship

Gukesh had barely exhibited any feelings all through the 2024 World Championship, sustaining his composure and exhibiting a outstanding maturity regardless of his tender age. The 18-year-old, nonetheless, couldn’t management his feelings after lastly realising his childhood dream of turning into the youngest world champion of all time, and had tears in his eyes when his victory was confirmed following Ding’s resignation.

Watch Gukesh’s successful second right here:

Beautiful feelings as Gukesh cries after successful the World Championship title! #DingGukesh pic.twitter.com/E53h0XOCV3

— chess24 (@chess24com) December 12, 2024

🇮🇳 Gukesh D 🥹
Women and gents, the 18th WORLD CHAMPION! #DingGukesh pic.twitter.com/CgzYBgeTfq

— Worldwide Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) December 12, 2024

Thus Gukesh grew to become solely the second Indian to be topped world champion after Viswanathan Anand, a five-time winner who had first achieved the feat after his victory over Alexei Shirov in 2000.

Extra importantly, he ended up breaking Garry Kasparov’s document that had stood almost 4 many years to change into the youngest chess world champion of all time. Kasparov had achieved the feat on the age of twenty-two after beating fellow Soviet Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov in 1985.

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Former world champion Magnus Carlsen, whose choice to not defend his title final yr allowed Ding to defeat 2022 Candidates Event winner Ian Nepomniachtchi and change into the primary Chinese language to be topped world champion, had almost damaged Kasparov’s document a decade in the past.

The Norwegian GM had fallen brief by a matter of 5 months after defeating Anand within the 2013 World Championship in Chennai.