Gukesh Dommaraju | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Gukesh Dommaraju | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 29 May 2006||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title | Grandmaster (2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIDE rating | 2794 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peak rating | 2794 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ranking | No. 5 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peak ranking | No. 5 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006), also known as Gukesh D, is an Indian chess grandmaster.[1] He is the third-youngest grandmaster in history, the third-youngest to reach a chess rating of 2700, the youngest to reach a rating of 2750, the youngest Candidates Tournament winner and the youngest contender to compete for the World Championship.[2] He has won one team and two individual gold medals at the Olympiad as well as one bronze team medal. He is a silver medalist at the Asian Games.[3]
At the junior level, Gukesh is a multiple-gold medalist at the World Youth Championship and the Asian Youth Championship.