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World Chess champion Gukesh achieves career-high No. 3 in FIDE Rankings

World Chess champion Gukesh achieves career-high No. 3 in FIDE Rankings

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India’s reigning world chess champion D Gukesh has reached a career-best No. 3 ranking in the latest FIDE classical ratings released on Saturday. Fellow Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa has also made a strong comeback into the top 10. The 18-year-old Gukesh, who has been in sensational form since defeating China’s Ding Liren to claim the world title in Singapore last December, gained 10 rating points to reach 2787. This remarkable rise places him just behind Hikaru Nakamura (2802) of the USA, while Norwegian chess legend Magnus Carlsen continues to hold the top spot with a 2833 rating. Gukesh recently finished as the runner-up at the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee, losing to Praggnanandhaa in a tiebreak. Despite this, his consistent performances have solidified his place among the elite in global chess. Meanwhile, Praggnanandhaa, who is currently competing in the Prague Masters, has returned to the top 10 for the first time since July last year. Thanks to his victory at the Tata Steel Masters, he has climbed to the eighth position with a …

Gukesh on win spree 2 years after Chennai heartbreak

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Eyebrows shot up, heads were cocked and frowns made appearances as some of the world’s top players, including former and current world champions like Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Ding Liren caught a glimpse of Gukesh’s battle against Azerbaijan’s Aydin Suleymanli, which the teenager from India ended up winning in 38 moves. There’s something about Gukesh and Olympiads. Two years back, at the Chess Olympiad hosted in his hometown of Chennai, a 16-year-old Gukesh had given one of the first indicators that he was going to be a problem for the rest of the world. Playing on the top board of the India B team at the Chess Olympiad in 2022, Gukesh (back then ranked World No 20) had gone on a rampage, smiting away at anyone who sat in front of him, even the world’s best players like Fabiano Caruana. But all of his work had been undone in a sense as he had lost against Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 10th round, which meant that the team lost the tie. What had stung …

Gukesh rises to World No 5 in live ratings, 3 Indians in top 10 in live rankings

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The fourth round of the Chess Olympiad in Budapest experienced massive tremors as some of the top teams slipped up while India consolidated their position at the top of the standings. The Indian players also saw their ratings rise in the live ratings. After the fourth round there are only eight teams left in the Chess Olympiad standings that have eight match points: India, Spain, China, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine (listed according to tiebreaks). India defeated Serbia 3.5-0.5 on Saturday with Gukesh (vs GM Alexandr Predke), Arjun Erigaisi (vs GM Aleksandar Indjic) and Vidit Gujrathi (vs GM Velimir Ivic) all winning their matches while Praggnanandhaa had accepted a draw on board 2 against GM Alexey Sarana. Gukesh ground out a clinical win after nearly six hours of chess. His win saw him vault into the 5th spot in the FIDE live ratings (which are updated in real-time as compared to FIDE’s published ratings which are updated at the end of every month). Interactive: How Gukesh defeated Serbian GM Alexandr Predke In the live …