The Indian chess wizard beat China’s Ding Liren at the World Chess Championship in Singapore to be crowned as the 18th world champion of the sport. Gukesh, who is 18, also became the youngest chess player to achieve the feat.
Soon after he became the World Champion, Gukesh took to social media platform X, owned my Musk, and posted a picture of his with the caption 18th @ 18!
18th @ 18! pic.twitter.com/krXbIfewo0
— Gukesh D (@DGukesh) December 13, 2024
To this Gukesh got several replies and one of the reply was from Musk! The X owner wrote “Congratulations!” below Gukesh’s post to recognize the India’s achievement.
Congratulations!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2024
Gukesh scripted history on Thursday when he dethroned Liren 7.5-6.5 to grab the title in the 14-game World Championship match. Before Gukesh’s feat, the legendary Garry Kasparov of Russia was the youngest world chess champion when he won the title at the age of 22, unseating Anatoly Karpov in 1985.
Gukesh is the second Indian after Viswanathan Anand to be crowned as the World Chess Champion.
