4 min readUpdated: Jan 29, 2026 01:22 AM IST World champion Gukesh Dommaraju reduced Yagiz Kaan Ergodmus to tears on the way to defeating the 14-year-old prodigy in Round 10 of the Tata Steel Chess tournament. Before Wednesday, Erdogmus was having the tournament of his life at Wijk aan Zee, beating the likes of Arjun Erigaisi, Jorden Van Foreest and Thai Dai Van Nguyen besides holding some of the strongest stars of the current generation like Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Aravindh Chithambaram, Hans Niemann, Vincent Keymer and Praggnanandhaa R to draws. Gukesh, on the other hand, had accumulated three defeats in nine rounds coming into Wednesday’s game. The world champion had experienced suffering at Wijk over nine rounds: he had Javokhir Sindarov on the ropes before letting him escape with a draw in round 1; he made a jaw-dropping, game-ending blunder against Abdusattorov in round 6 that he had plenty of difficulty moving on from, and then lost two more games to Anish Giri and Matthias Bluebaum. Unlike his usual calm self, he was even so irked …