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- Indian Grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh became the youngest chess champion in the world.
- Gukesh won 18th World Chess Championship by defeating China’s Ding Liren in final and 14th match of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore.
- India’s 18-year-old prodigy scored 7.5 points while Ding got 6.5 points.
- In total 14 matches, Gukesh won three. Ding won in two. Rest nine matches were drawn.
- Gukesh beat the record previously held by Garry Kasparov.
- Garry Kasparov became the world chess champion at age of 22.
- Gukesh is the second world champion from India after Viswanathan Anand.
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