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World Chess Championship 2024
Context
In a dramatic finale at the 2024 World Chess Championship, Indian prodigy Gukesh D. emerged as the youngest world champion in history, dethroning reigning champion Ding Liren after a critical blunder in the final game.
Gukesh creates history
- Gukesh becomes the first Indian World Chess Champion since Viswanathan Anand in 2012.
- It caps off a stunning year for Gukesh, who has also won the Candidates 2024 tournament and the Chess Olympiad gold.
- Gukesh also became the first teenager to become World Chess Champion.
- The World Chess Championship is an event that decides the world champion in standard or classical chess, currently GM Gukesh Dommaraju.
- Official World Chess Championships started in 1886 with players arranging the matches themselves.
- The World Championship Match consists of 14 games. The player who scores 7.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 14 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak.
- FIDE has remained responsible for organizing the World Championship ever since.
- Besides the open World Championship, there are also other tournaments designated for different categories. Those are the Women's World Championship, World Junior Championship, World Senior Championship, World Rapid Championship, and World Blitz Championship.
| List of Chess world champions over the years | ||||
| S.No. | Player | Dates |
Wins |
Years Won |
| 1. | Wilhelm Steinitz | 1886-94 | 4 | 1886, 1889, 1890, 1892 |
| 2. | Emanuel Lasker | 1894-1921 | 6 | 1894, 1896, 1907, 1908, 1910*, 1910 |
| 3. | Jose Raul Capablanca | 1921-27 | 1 | 1921 |
| 4. | Alexander Alekhine | 1927-35, 1937-46 | 4 | 1927, 1929, 1934, 1937 |
| 5. | Max Euwe | 1935-37 | 1 | 1935 |
| 6. | Mikhail Botvinnik | 1948-57, 1958-60, 1961-63 | 5 | 1948t, 1951*, 1954*, 1958, 1961 |
| 7. | Vasily Smyslov | 1957-58 | 1 | 1957 |
| 8. | Mikhail Tal | 1960-61 | 1 | 1960 |
| 9. | Tigran V. Petrosian | 1963-69 | 2 | 1963, 1966 |
| 10. | Boris Spassky | 1969-72 | 1 | 1969 |
| 11. | Bobby Fischer | 1972-75 | 1 | 1972 |
| 12. | Anatoly Karpov | 1975-85 | 3# | 1975d, 1978, 1981, 1984# |
| 13. | Garry Kasparov | 1985-2000 | 6 | 1985, 1986, 1987*, 1990, 1993, 1995 |
| 14. | Vladimir Kramnik | 2000-07 | 3 | 2000, 2004*, 2006** |
| 15. | Viswanathan Anand | 2007-13 | 4 | 2007t, 2008, 2010, 2012** |
| 16. | Magnus Carlsen | 2013-2023 | 5 | 2013, 2014, 2016**, 2018**, 2021 |
| 17. | Ding Liren | 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| 18. | D Gukesh | 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
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