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Chennai teenager Gukesh D becomes India's No.1 chess player, ends Anand's 36-year-long reign after win in 2nd round of World Cup

 

Gukesh D overtook Anand, who was India’s top-ranked player in all published lists since January 1987.

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Gukesh D won again today and has overcome Viswanathan Anand in live rating! There is still almost a month till next official FIDE rating list on September 1, but it's highly likely that 17-year-old will be making it to top 10 in the world as the highest-rated Indian player," the international chess federation (FIDE) said in a tweet.

The latest gain of 2.5 rating points took Gukesh’s live rating to 2755.9, while Anand’s is 2754.0. As a result, Gukesh replaced Anand as the World No. 9 in live rankings while the five-time World champion slipped to 10th.

Anand, who first made it to the World’s top-10 in July 1991, has remained India’s top-ranked player in all published lists since January 1987.

 

Also youngest to breach 2750, even younger than Magnus Carlsen!!!!! Potential world champion.

Haven't followed chess much recently, last I remember there were 4-5 players almost similar in strength, Pragg, Nihal, Arjun, Gukesh, Raunak etc. Now there is a clear frontrunner. Expected Harikrishna or Vidit to surpass Anand 5-10 years back but didn't happen, both declined a lot. Hope we don't have to wait for 36 more years to get another new #1.

Anyway time to bring the crown back to India, hopefully happens this decade.

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Just now, Vickydev said:

Praggu got all the hype but this boy has always been the real deal. Has the true potential to compete for the WC title in classical format

Think Praggu, Nihal, Arjun played more rapid/blitz post pandemic. Anyway all are young and have high ceiling, all of them deserve hype. 

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Meanwhile Anand is FIDE deputy president now. Max Euwe remains the only world champion to become FIDE president (both Karpov and Kasparov failed miserably in their campaigns). Hope to see Anand become president in near future and bring more events to India. Despite the successful Olympiad last year and our meteoric rise we aren't given our share. That must change, this is India's time to shine. 

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Yesterday I was looking at classical ratings...if he wins 6 games on a net basis, he will get 36 points, will catapult him to rank 2 ahead of caruana and behind carslen...that is difficult but possible as he has moment.

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1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Chennai teenager Gukesh D becomes India's No.1 chess player, ends Anand's 36-year-long reign after win in 2nd round of World Cup

 

Gukesh D overtook Anand, who was India’s top-ranked player in all published lists since January 1987.

Also youngest to breach 2750, even younger than Magnus Carlsen!!!!! Potential world champion.

Haven't followed chess much recently, last I remember there were 4-5 players almost similar in strength, Pragg, Nihal, Arjun, Gukesh, Raunak etc. Now there is a clear frontrunner. Expected Harikrishna or Vidit to surpass Anand 5-10 years back but didn't happen, both declined a lot. Hope we don't have to wait for 36 more years to get another new #1.

Anyway time to bring the crown back to India, hopefully happens this decade.

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amazing achievement, and a lot of young guns. hoping that some of them make the transition from very good to great

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World Cup is one event Carlsen has never won, that and an Olympiad gold are his final frontiers. Will be super motivated for this clash, also he likes to send a message to possible challengers, Gukesh is up against it. Best of luck to the lad, at least we'll have one guaranteed SFist because of the Pragg-Arjun QF clash. 

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@Gollum

 

There is a technicality that you've overlooked.

 

Gukesh has overtaken Anand on live ratings. However, the record that you are mentioning is for ratings released by FIDE at the end of every month.

 

Unless Gukesh has a terrible rest of the month and tanks every game, he is going to overtake Anand. But he hasn't yet.

If live ratings are your barometer, Anand's rank#1 has been breached half a decade or so ago, by Harikrishna. But by the end of the month Anand had recouped and finished as India #1.

 

That said Gukesh is there to dominate world chess for years to come. Hoping he beats Magnus today.

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25 minutes ago, Mariyam said:

@Gollum

 

There is a technicality that you've overlooked.

 

Gukesh has overtaken Anand on live ratings. However, the record that you are mentioning is for ratings released by FIDE at the end of every month.

 

Unless Gukesh has a terrible rest of the month and tanks every game, he is going to overtake Anand. But he hasn't yet.

If live ratings are your barometer, Anand's rank#1 has been breached half a decade or so ago, by Harikrishna. But by the end of the month Anand had recouped and finished as India #1.

 

That said Gukesh is there to dominate world chess for years to come. Hoping he beats Magnus today.

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Yeah, by the time Gukesh steered clear by 5/6 points it became clear that he would stay ahead of Anand even if he went on to lose 2 classical games (the format of this event).

 

No more chess event scheduled this month and Anand is basically semi-retired at this point (especially classical). So Gukesh has the record.

 

Now I remember about Hari, it was probably after Gibraltar open when Anand dropped to #15 or #16 in live rankings 

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On 8/9/2023 at 8:19 PM, Lord said:

Has he surpassed Anand's current ranking or his peak ranking?

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Anand's peak rating is 2817 from 2011 but IMO his late 2700s runs in 90s and early 00s is superior. Rating inflation is real. In 90s hardly 4-5 players were above 2700, Kasparov was 2800+. Anand crossed 2800 for the first time in 2006, after Kasparov's retirement.

 

Anand's peak ranking is world #1, Gukesh is #7 at present.

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23 minutes ago, ravishingravi said:

Too early for comparisons with Anand on the basis of live ratings. But very very impressive signs. Looks like an era of Indian chess domination coming up. 

Loses 1st game to carslen today and most likely will be knocked out by him...

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41 minutes ago, randomGuy said:

Loses 1st game to carslen today and most likely will be knocked out by him...

That was on the cards. Arguably, Magnus is the greatest chess player of all time and at his peak. Like the cliche goes: The worlds' strongest chess player is a motivated Magnus. And second strongest chess player is a demotivated Magnus.

 

Guys like Gukesh are only going to get stronger from here on. I'm going to pull a Pandya here and say that Gukesh will learn form his losses.

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