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Gukesh becomes second youngest GM in history
1/15/2019 – 12 years, 7 months and 17 days — that's the age of the new second youngest ever, GM-elect D. Gukesh . He's also the 60th grandmaster from India! How did this youngster achieve it? On the surface, it looks like an extremely smooth journey where Gukesh achieved one milestone after another. "But when you delve deeper", writes SAGAR SHAH, "you see tremendous amount of sacrifices, grit, determination and much more from not just the youngster and his entire family". | Photo: David Llada
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Narrowly misses Karjakin record
If you feel like you've read that headline before, you're not wrong. This is now the third time we've had to update the number two spot on our list of the youngest grandmasters in history, just in the last six months! It was last June when Praggnanandhaa finally bagged his third GM-norm at the age of 12 years, 10 months and 13 days. Then in October, Javokhir Sindarov achieved the same feat just three days younger. Now the record for second youngest GM heads back to India as D. Gukesh scored the requisite GM performance today at the 17th Delhi Open, almost three months faster than Sindarov!
Here's how his rating performance has steadily climbed.
It's mind-boggling to think that Gukesh was basically a beginner just five years ago!
IM Sagar Shah, from ChessBase India, has penned this dedication to India's youngest GM, who is sure to make it big in the years to come.
In October 2017, Gukesh was a talented youngster with a rating of 2322 and no norms. In 16 months, he scored three IM norms, three GM norms, pumped up his rating to 2500 and became the second youngest GM in the history of the game. Today, January 15th, Gukesh achieved his final GM norm at the Delhi GM 2019 and with it qualified for the GM title at the age of 12 years, 7 months and 17 days (4617 days from his birthdate , May 29th, 2006). The youngest GM in Indian chess history and the second youngest GM in the world, he missed Karjakin's record of the youngest GM in the world by just 19 days!
The ninth round game at the Delhi Chess 2019 that helped Gukesh to score his third GM norm | Photo: Niklesh Jain
He scored his GM norm with one round to spare:
Tournaments performances, October 2017 to January 2019
| S.No | Name of tournament | Period | No. | Rating gain | Norms |
| 1 | First Friday | Oct-17 | 9 | 39.4 | 1st IM norm |
| 2 | National under-11 | Dec-17 | 11 | -12.8 | |
| 3 | Bhopal GM 2017 | Dec-17 | 9 | 4 | |
| 4 | IIFLW Open | Jan-18 | 9 | -27 | |
| 5 | IIFLW Junior | Jan-18 | 9 | -2 | |
| 6 | Delhi GM 2018 | Jan-18 | 10 | -5 | |
| 7 | Moscow Open 2018 | Feb-18 | 9 | 40 | 2nd IM norm |
| 8 | Aeroflot Open 2018 | Mar-18 | 9 | 8 | |
| 9 | Capelle La Grande | Mar-18 | 9 | 33 | 3rd IM norm |
| 10 | Asian Youth under-12 | Apr-18 | 9 | 1 | |
| 11 | Bangkok Open | Apr-18 | 9 | 24 | 1st GM norm |
| 12 | Kolkata GM Open | May-18 | 9 | 5 | |
| 13 | Bhubaneshwar GM | Jun-18 | 9 | -4 | |
| 14 | White Rook | Jun-18 | 9 | 10 | |
| 15 | Alekhine Memorial | Jun-18 | 9 | -4 | |
| 16 | Jul-18 | 9 | 3.5 | ||
| 17 | Pardubice | Jul-18 | 9 | 4 | |
| 18 | Abu Dhabi Open | Aug-18 | 9 | 11.5 | |
| 19 | Abu Dhabi Juniors | Aug-18 | 9 | 2 | |
| 20 | Sants Open | Sep-18 | 10 | -1 | |
| 21 | Trieste Open | Sep-18 | 9 | 7 | |
| 22 | Closed GM Heraklion | Sep-18 | 9 | -3.5 | |
| 23 | Gujarat GM | Oct-18 | 9 | -7 | |
| 24 | Isle of Man | Oct-18 | 9 | 8 | |
| 25 | World Cadets under-12 | Nov-18 | 11 | 9 | |
| 26 | GM Round Robin Serbia | Dec-18 | 9 | 21.4 | 2nd GM norm |
| 27 | Sunway Sitges Open | Dec-18 | 9 | 9.5 | |
| 28 | Mumbai IIFLW Juniors | Jan-19 | 9 | 12.4 | |
| 29 | Mumbai IIFLW Open | Jan-19 | 9 | -12.4 | |
| 30 | Delhi GM 2019 | Jan-19 | 9 | 15 | 3rd GM norm |
| 276 | 189 |
While the rating gain of 189 Elo points and norms is amazing, what is even more impressive is the number of rated games that Gukesh has played — 276 games in 16 months. This works out to roughly 17 games per month or two tournaments every month for the last 16 months! Strong GMs are tired when they play 100 rated games in a year. Gukesh , on the other hand, has played nearly 207 games in one year!
This goes completely against conventional wisdom that you must relax in between the tournaments and have time to unwind. For Gukesh , playing chess is unwinding. For him, moving his pieces, thinking of plans is the best form of relaxation! Look at how many unsuccessful events the boy has had. Out of the 30 events he played in last 16 months, in ten of them he had lost rating points. But the most important thing for Gukesh was the focus on his games, on moves and improvement. This has helped him to improve very quickly.
Just to give you an example of how much he loves chess, his mother Padma Kumari said in the latest interview:
"Gukesh and his father came back from the Sunway Sitges very tired. Their flight was delayed and instead of reaching in the morning, they reached home in the afternoon. Gukesh was going to participate in the ChessBase India online blitz on the same day which was held in the honour of Vishy Anand's 49th birthday. The tournament was going to begin at 8 p.m. and Gukesh asked me to wake him up three hours before the tournament. As he was very tired I woke him up one hour before the event. He was very angry at me. He quickly got ready, switched on his computer and played a few practice games before the tournament began. He told me not to disturb him. This was an unbelievable scene for me. It just showed me how much he loved chess."
Interview with Gukesh and his mother after Gukesh became a GM
Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary of AICF embraces Gukesh after he became a GM | Photo: David Llada
Man of the moment with David Llada, Atul Dahale, Niklesh Jain and Angela Franco | Photo: David Llada
ChessBase India has been closely following Gukesh's every tournament and takes you chronologically through some of the biggest achievements of Gukesh's chess career till date.
First IM norm
This picture sent to us by Peter Long after Gukesh achieved his first IM norm was a super-hit! Gukesh celebrates his victory with rice and dal !
He then went on to win the U-11 nationals in November 2017 in Pune! | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Finishing sixth in the super strong GM Open in Bhopal was a truly wonderful feat | Photo: Amruta Mokal
He won the IIFLW juniors and received the trophy from Vishy Anand | Photo: Niklesh Jain
The father and son duo enjoy their sweet moment of victory! | Photo: Niklesh Jain
2nd and 3rd IM norms
After becoming an IM one would imagine that Gukesh would not play in Asian under-12, but the youngster didn't stop playing. He went to the Asian Championships in Thailand and won five gold medals! Three individual golds in classical, rapid and blitz in individual format, gold in team rapid and blitz and bronze in team classical.
April, 2018 in Thailand at the Asian Youthe Championships
1st GM norm
This is what happened:
But Gukesh made full use of this situation and beat his strong opponents in the subsequent rounds to achieve his first GM norm at the Bangkok Open.
After achieving his first GM norm, a tough period began for Gukesh where he played 14 tournaments, but couldn't achieve his second norm. But in this period between May to November, he had the following achievements:
Part of the winning team — Velammal at the White rook championships in Russia, giving Gukesh and all other members free entry to the Aeroflot Open 2019
Winning the Abu Dhabi Juniors 2018!
Becoming the World Champion under-12
By now Gukesh had already built up a great fan following thanks to his achievements!
GUKESH,D.-TUGSTUMUR,YESUNTUMUR
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Although Gukesh had won the white rook, Abu Dhabi Juniors and World under-12 championships, the GM norm was not coming. At the same time, he had the remote possibility of breaking Karjakin's youngest GM record, if he achieved his GM title by December 29th, 2018. But there were only two tournaments left until the end of the year. How was Gukesh going to do it?
2nd GM norm
First up Gukesh gave a powerful performance at the Orbis-2 GM round-robin tournament in Paracin, Serbia. He scored 7½/9, gaining 21.4 Elo points with a performance of 2665 achieved his 2nd GM norm.
Paracin, Serbia, early December 2018
With a rating of 2490 and 2 GM norms, Gukesh was going to the Sunway Sitges Championship. He had a realistic chance of becoming the youngest GM in the world if he score d his final GM norm there. He missed it by a whi sker, scoring half a point less than needed. But he was not affec ted in a big way. Gukesh ga ve a calm interview t o ChessBase India a fter the tourname nt and got ready for his next ev ent — the Mumbai IIFLW 2018-19.
"E njoy the press ure", says Guk esh, who had t he eyeballs of the entire wo rld focusing on him to bre ak Karjakin's record
Just t o show what a level headed person Gukesh's father Rajinikanth is, here's his post after Gukesh was unable to break Karjakin's record:
"It's been a fantastic year for Gukesh. Honestly at the start of 2018, if someone would have pr edicted and told me that at the year end he will be close to 2500 and completed IM title and also has 2 GM norms in addition to Asian and World gold medals, I would have laughed it off. So it's that sort of miracle year. I am pretty happy with his efforts and res ults. Keep supporting him with all your blessings and prayers as I feel he wasn't destined for this record but who knows he has better things to target! Heartfelt thanks for all your support."
This has been one of the reasons why Gu kesh does well. He has had absolutely no pressure from his parents. They do not interfere with his chess decisions. If there is a draw in a position and Gukesh overstretches and loses the game, his father is proud that Gukesh tried to play for a win and not tha t he missed the draw. It's this attitude that helps the young boy play freely.
At the IIFLW Championship 2018-19 Gukesh was unable to win the juniors section, nor was he able to achieve his GM norm in the open section. But he showed his claws, by beating the top seed in the open section Aleksandrov (2590).
Gukesh talks about his IIFLW tournament and whether he enjoys his father or mother's company more at a tournament!
Gukesh and Sa vitha both met Frederic Friedel, the co-founder of ChessBase GmbH on the last day of the Mumbai IIFLW 2018-19 and received ChessBase 15 as gifts
3rd GM norm
The third GM norm had to come sooner than later! Gukesh played a fine tournament at the Delhi GM Open 2019 and achieved his final norm!
He lost the last round to GM Abhijeet Gupta, but has plenty to smile over! | Photo: David Llada
All D. Gukesh's games from the 1 7th Delhi Open
GUKESH D-BOMMINI MOUNIKA AKSHAYA
| Gukesh D | 1–0 | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 e6 4.c4 c6 5.d4 Nf6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.h3 D11: Slav Defence: 3 Nf3 sidelines and 3... Nf6 4 e3 Bg4 Bh5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nh4 LiveBook: 9 Games. White has an edge. Be7 10.Nc3 0-0 11.g4NPrede cessor: 11.f4 Ne4 12.Nf5 Nxc3 13.bxc3 1-0 (34) Vachier Lagrave,M (2785)-Gunina,V (2496) Gibraltar 2016 11...Bg6 12 .Nxg6 hxg6 13.e4 Nxe4 Loss on time!?1–0
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asked Gu kesh's cu rrent trainer GM Vi shnu Prasanna as to what makes Gukesh special. He rep lied:
"Gukesh surpri sed me early on with his strategic sense and unique s trategic decision s . This is e ven more surprising considering how young he is. He is extremely go od at calculating va r iations qui ckly and precisely. Most of all he has tremendousl y important qualities like w illingness to le arn, curiosity and a good temperament to handle pressure."
No great thing was ever achieved alone! Gukesh's support team clock-wise from bottom left: Krishna Prasad (sports psychologist), Bhaskar (Gukesh's first trainer), Vishnu Prasanna, P. Karthikeyan and Vijay Anand
The organizations that have helped Gukesh in his journey — ONGC, Velammal and Microsense
Adapted from the original story with kind permission of ChessBase India.
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Congratulations Gukesh D!
@rehsupdoow - Thanks. Corrected.
great feat, gukesh, kudos to you, you have made our country proud!!!
So AlphaZero got its GM status at... 90 minutes old, maybe?
Karjakin got his third norm when he was 4595 days old; Gukesh got his when he was 4614 days old.
Karjakin holds the r ecord by 19 days, not 17.
Sergey was born in a January, Guk esh was born in May.
Over their next ~7 months, Serge y had one fewer 31 day month and a short February to his credit. This adds to 3 days, not 2. This is because the Chessbase calculation assumed that all months are 30 and five twelths long (plus a b it for the leap year). This caused a rounding error.
It doesn't affect the ordering ... this time, but when we get yet younger Grandmasters, you better work out the days.
So for now, Sergey leads by 19 !
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It doesn't affect the ordering ... this time, but when we get yet younger Grandmasters, you better work out the days.
So for now, Sergey leads by 19 !
Absolutely incredible and marvelous. Heartiest and Highest Congratula tions to D. Gukesh and his entire family! It was a giant sacrifice, but well worth it.
Fantastic accomplis hment!!
Fantastic acc
January 15th 2019. will be remembered as the day when India got the youngest Grandmaster and 2nd youngest Grandmaster ever. Indian prodigy Gukesh D successfully completed his path to become GM by obtaining his last GM norm in 17th De lhi OPEN GM Chess Tournament.
After drawing in Round 8 against strong GM from Tajikistan Farrukh Amonatov rated 2621 Gukesh was waiting to see the pairings of Round 9. If his opponent in Round 9 was a player rated 2550 or more he would need a draw for GM norm. If his 9th round opponent was lower ratedw in was required. His opponent in Round 9 was Indian IM Dinesh K Sharma rated 2303 and it was clear that Gukesh needs a win for a great achievement.
And his game, which you can see in this video, was a small masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjcuRQ1z8oQ
12 years, 7 months and 17 days old Gukesh obtained one of the best chess successes ever.
He became GM only 17 days after current record holder legendary Sergey Karjakin.
I am very happy that Round Robin tournament “Orbis-2 2018” in Paracin, Serbia, where Gukesh supremely obtained his 2nd GM norm, will be re membered as a path of his great success.
I would like to congratulate to Gukesh, his unlimitedly supportive family and to his coaches on this great achievement.
After drawing in Round 8 against strong GM from Tajikistan Farrukh Amonatov rated 2621 Gukesh was waiting to see the pairings of Round 9. If his opponent in Round 9 was a player rated 2550 or more he would need a draw for GM norm. If his 9th round opponent was lower rated
And his game, which you can see in this video, was a small masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjcuRQ1z8oQ
12 years, 7 months and 17 days old Gukesh obtained one of the best chess successes ever.
He became GM only 17 days after current record holder legendary Sergey Karjakin.
I am very happy that Round Robin tournament “Orbis-2 2018” in Paracin, Serbia, where Gukesh supremely obtained his 2nd GM norm, will be r
I would like to congratulate to Gukesh, his unlimitedly supportive family and to his coaches on this great achievement.
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