India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history after defeating Ding Liren 7½-6½ in a tense championship in Singapore.
The teenager, already the youngest challenger to compete for the world title, gained the point required in the final of the best-of-14 classic games to beat defending champion Ding, banking his share of the $2.5 million prize fund in the process.
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He becomes India’s second world chess champion, following five-time champion Viswanathan Anand, who last won the world title in 2013, and, as the sport’s youngest-ever world champion, breaks the previous record held by Garry Kasparov. In 1985, Kasparov, 22, dethroned Anatoly Karpov.
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