Indian GM Gukesh wins title at World Chess Armageddon Asia and Oceania event

He is already the Under-13 World Champion and narrowly missed out on the record to become the youngest Grand Master in the world in December last year.

Teenaged Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh stunned former world rapid champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan in the final to win the World Chess Armageddon Asia & Oceania event here. Gukesh emerged winner in a topsy-turvy summit clash late on Sunday. 

Gukesh is already being called a prodigy after being the World Champion in under-13 category. He also missed narrowly a record of becoming the world's youngest Grand Master last year.

He was also very naughty by nature. Once while talking to media Gukesh divulged that he often teases people including the senior chess players. But Gukesh, now 16 years, was once depressed after he missed the record of becoming youngest Grand Master. He added, "I could not sleep,eat properly for a couple of days." 

However, The 16-year-old Indian won in a field that included former world classical champion Vladimir Kramnik, Daniil Dubov, Yangyi Yu (China), Vidit Gujrathi and Karthikeyan Murali (both India) and Param Maghsoodloo (Iran), apart from Abdusattorov.

He wrote in Twitter, 'I am glad to win the thrilling event Armageddon championship series 2023-Asia and Oceania group by @theworldchess! Big relief to finally win a faster time control elite event & enjoyed plenty of new experiences the way event was played amidst lights, makeup stuf.'

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand hailed the young GM’s achievement.

An Armageddon game is a variant of blitz chess to determine a winner after a series of drawn game. A drawn game in the Armageddon is counted as a win for Black. 

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