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‘Means a lot to me that my parents don’t have to think about money anymore’: Gukesh | Chess News

‘Means a lot to me that my parents don’t have to think about money anymore’: Gukesh | Chess News

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Current chess world champion D Gukesh opened up about his parents’ struggles before his success, revealing that they had to depend on the generosity of friends to support his international tournament expenses. “I remember my parents’ friends sponsoring me to play tournaments abroad. It was quite difficult at that time, and we had a lot of help from very, very nice and selfless people. Now, the last year was financially very good for us,” Gukesh said at the ‘India Today Conclave 2025’. “I think it means a lot to me that my parents don’t have to think about money anymore. We can lead a comfortable life, not struggle like before,” he added. Gukesh is India’s youngest grandmaster, missing the tag of becoming the world’s youngest by just 17 days. He’s the youngest-ever winner of the Candidates tournament, which earned him a shot at the World Championship in the first place. And he was the first Indian chess player to topple Viswanathan Anand’s 36-year stay in the world rankings as the top-ranked Indian player. Story continues …

Gukesh is new world no 3 after Praggnanandhaa beats Fabiano Caruana

Gukesh is new world no 3 after Praggnanandhaa beats Fabiano Caruana

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Gukesh is now the world no 3 in the FIDE ratings charts after his draw against China’s Wei Yi in the 11th round of the Tata Steel chess tournament coupled with Praggnanandhaa’s defeat of Fabiano Caruana. Over the course of the past 11 games in the Tata Steel chess tournament, world champion Gukesh’s rating has gone up by 16 rating points. He is currently rated at 2793, just one point off his career best rating of 2794 which he achieved in October 2024. With just two rounds remaining in the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Gukesh is currently leading the masters standings with Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattarov half a point behind in joint second spot. Story continues below this ad Gukesh is playing in his first event after becoming the youngest world champion in history last month where he defeated Ding Liren in Singapore. With India’s top-ranked player Arjun Erigaisi woefully out of sorts at the Tata Steel event and dropping 33 points to slide down to sixth spot, Gukesh also became …

D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi in top-five in latest FIDE chess rankings; Koneru Humpy leads India’s women contingent

D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi in top-five in latest FIDE chess rankings; Koneru Humpy leads India’s women contingent

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Jan 02, 2025 08:16 PM IST Magnus Carlsen remains as the leader in the FIDE rankings with an ELO rating of 2831, followed by American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura. 2024 was an action-packed year for India in chess as D Gukesh reigned supreme to clinch the World Chess Championship in Singapore. It was followed by Koneru Humpy winning the World Rapid Championship in New York. In the latest FIDE rankings, which were released on Wednesday, Gukesh remains in fifth position, behind Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi, who is fourth with a rating of 2801. Meanwhile, Gukesh has an ELO rating of 2783. D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi during the 45th FIDE Olympiad.(AP) Koneru is sixth in the FIDE rankings for women with a rating of 2523, with Divya Deshmukh in 14th spot with a rating of 2490. Meanwhile, D Harika is 16th with an ELO rating of 2489. R Vaishali, who bagged bronze at the Blitz C’ship, is 19th in the standings. The 21-year-old Grandmaster defeated Zhu Jiner 2.5-1.5 in the quarterfinals, but then …

‘Missed chances’: Arjun Erigaisi holds Levon Aronian to a draw to take lead in Chennai Grand Masters | Chess News

‘Missed chances’: Arjun Erigaisi holds Levon Aronian to a draw to take lead in Chennai Grand Masters | Chess News

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After starting off the Chennai Grand Masters event with a win on Tuesday, favourite Arjun Erigaisi on Wednesday held American GM Levon Aronian, the second-highest ranked player in the tournament. Playing with white pieces, Erigaisi pushed hard for a second win on the trot, but settled for a draw after a nearly three-hour battle. Having managed to recover in the opening round against Vidit Gujrathi, Erigaisi admitted that it was no different against Aronian, and felt satisfied with the draw. “Yesterday (on Tuesday), I got outplayed and then I got lucky in the end. Today, it was a very shaky game for both of us. I was worse at one point. We both missed so many chances,” said Arjun. With the draw Arjun still remains at the top with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Amin Tabatabaei giving him company. Vachier-Lagrave drew with Aravindh Chithambaram after a tactical stand-off, while Tabatabaei defeated Alexey Sarana for a crucial win. Iran’s Parham Maghsoodloo handed Gujrati a second successive defeat despite the Indian staying in the contest till the very end. …

Being World No 3 or 2800 don’t matter that much

Being World No 3 or 2800 don’t matter that much

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Earlier this month, Arjun Erigaisi stepped on Mount 2800, touching the elusive classical ratings barrier in chess that only 16 grandmasters have touched in history. At 21 years of age, Arjun Erigaisi is one of the youngest players to have achieved the feat which led everyone from five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing their delight at the young Indian prodigy scaling new heights. For Arjun Erigaisi, however, going past the 2800 rating points milestone was just an “added bonus” to winning the game for his club, Team Alkaloid, by defeating Dmitry Andreikin in the 5th round of the European Chess Club Cup. Arjun says that his mind was focussed on winning his battle with Andreikin and how that could sway the overall clash between the two clubs. “The satisfaction was there after winning. But that was because I won that game against a strong player, not because of reaching 2800. I did have an idea that if I won, I would cross 2800. But at that point, it wasn’t …

Explaining significance Arjun Erigaisi reaching 2800 rating mark

Explaining significance Arjun Erigaisi reaching 2800 rating mark

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Arjun Erigaisi finds himself breathing rarefied air. On Friday, he scaled Mount 2800 in the live ratings and put himself in contention to stay there when FIDE publishes its official ratings list at the end of this month. The current membership of the club stands at 14, with Anish Giri only having a temporary visitors’ pass to the club since he entered it in live ratings (which are updated in real time) but was out by the time the monthly ratings list was published by FIDE. Just how impressive Arjun Erigaisi’s feat is can be gauged by the immediate reactions to him touching 2800. “(Arjun is) Like a bullet gaining 60 points this year!” Viswanathan Anand exclaimed on X referring to Arjun’s rapid rise from being 2738 in January this year. We break down the significance of Arjun Erigaisi touching 2800 rating points: What is the big deal about reaching a 2800 rating? The 2800 rating club is an elusive club in chess. Only 16 men, including Arjun Erigaisi, have entered it. Only 14 have …

Arjun Erigaisi enters elusive 2800 club in live ratings, becomes only 2nd Indian after Vishy Anand to reach elusive club | Chess News

Arjun Erigaisi enters elusive 2800 club in live ratings, becomes only 2nd Indian after Vishy Anand to reach elusive club | Chess News

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Arjun Erigaisi made history late on Thursday by breaking into the elusive 2800 rating club in the live ratings at the European Chess Club Cup. In history, only 16 players in the world have touched Mount 2800 in the live ratings, which are updated in real time. Besides Arjun Erigaisi, there are currently three players who have a live rating over 2800: Magnus Carlsen (2831.0), Fabiano Caruana (2805.2) and Hikaru Nakamura (2802.0). Arjun Erigaisi, playing for his club, Team Alkaloid, defeated Dmitry Andreikin (2729) with the white pieces in the 5th round of the European Chess Club Cup, where plenty of Indians are in action including Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa. Arjun Erigaisi is now only the second Indian chess player to break the hallowed 2800 rating mark after five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand. In the coming days, world championship contender Gukesh could also break into the 2800 club. Gukesh is currently on 2785.8 but he had come within six points earlier this month, achieving his peak rating of 2794. Arjun Erigaisi was unbeaten at the Chess …

Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh in top 5 rankings after historic Chess Olympiad; Ding Liren out of top 20 | Chess News

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India has two representatives in the top 5 rankings in FIDE’s latest published rankings after a historic Chess Olympiad where both the Indian teams won gold medals while there were four individual golds as well for the country’s chess players. In the chess rankings which are published every month, Arjun Erigaisi is ranked No 3 in the world while Gukesh is ranked No 5. Gukesh and Divya Deshmukh are also on top of the lists in the open juniors and girls categories for this month after stellar performances at Budapest Chess Olympiad. Both players won individual golds on their respective boards at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest last week, with Arjun Erigaisi currently just three points away from breaking into the elusive 2800 club. He gained 19 rating points. Meanwhile, Gukesh gained a whopping 30 rating points over the course of the past month to propel himself to the no 5 spot in the October 2024 rating list. Both Arjun Erigaisi and Gukesh have touched their career high ratings after the Chess Olympiad. Arjun Erigaisi …

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 …