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GM Gukesh D
World Champion

Gukesh D

Flag of India India Rating 2703 20 years old
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B1 // At a glance

The essentials.

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Born
29 May 2006 20 years old
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Place of birth
Chennai, India
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Grandmaster since
15 January 2019 at 12 years, 7 months, 17 days
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Peak rating
2794 October 2024
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Current rating
2703
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Federation
India (IND)
B2 // Career

The road so far.

Gukesh D learned the game in Chennai, the city Viswanathan Anand comes from, and became a grandmaster at twelve. In 2023 he passed Anand as India’s highest-rated player, ending a run of 37 years.

In December 2024 he won the title match against Ding Liren in Singapore by 7½–6½ and became, at eighteen, the youngest undisputed World Champion in the history of the game. In Geneva he defends the title for the first time.

B3 // Achievements

The biggest results.

  1. 2019

    Grandmaster at twelve

    At 12 years, 7 months and 17 days, the third-youngest grandmaster in history at the time.

  2. 2022

    Individual gold at the Olympiad

    9/11 on the top board at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, with team bronze alongside it.

  3. 2023

    India’s number one

    Youngest player ever past 2750, and the first Indian to overtake Viswanathan Anand in 37 years.

  4. 2024

    Winner of the Candidates

    9/14 in Toronto, making him the youngest winner the Candidates Tournament has ever had.

  5. 2024

    Double gold in Budapest

    Team and individual gold at the 45th Chess Olympiad, India’s first Olympiad win in the Open.

  6. 2024

    World Champion

    7½–6½ against Ding Liren in Singapore; at eighteen, the youngest World Champion in history.

B4 // Numbers

What the collected games show.

Computed from the classical games we collect for this match. Both players get the same metrics.

Games tracked

10

6 wins, 3 draws, 1 losses

Score

7.5 / 10

Points per game: 75%

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With White
4 / 5
With Black
3.5 / 5
Average opponent

2503

from 10 games

Mean accuracy loss

Opening
0.5 percentage points

from 10 games

Middlegame
0.9 percentage points

from 10 games

Endgame
0.6 percentage points

from 3 games

Largest swing

12.3

Largest loss of win probability in a single move.

Most surprising strong move

Qg7

<1%

Objectively strong, rarely played at 2700 level.

471 analysed half-moves from 10 games. Small sample: these are tendencies, not verdicts. The numbers grow with every game collected. Computed by the Bogner Chess AI Coach. The numbers cover the named player’s moves only.

B5 // Games

Every game we track.

Every game of Gukesh D we have collected, newest first.

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