Garry Kasparov of Russia, a 6-time globe chess champion and an icon of the sport, said D Gukesh’s FIDE Candidates title-winning functionality in Toronto marked a new tectonic shift in the chess planet.
“The Indian earthquake in Toronto is the fruits of the shifting tectonic plates in the chess environment as the 17-12 months-old Gukesh D will facial area the Chinese champion Ding Liren for the maximum title,” Kasparov wrote on X
“Search at the names of lots of of the major junior gamers in the United states and England to see that the Chinese and Indian diaspora are just as passionate to obtain at chess,” he added.
Kasparov also said “The ‘children’ of Vishy Anand are on the free”, as 3 of WestBridge Anand Chess Academy’s (WACA) players marked their existence at this year’s Candidates.
Together with Gukesh, his fellow Indian grandmaster from Chennai, Praggnanandhaa in the open classification and Vaishali in the women’s portion ended up part of the Candidates. The trio trains at Anand’s WACA Chess Academy in Chennai.
Gukesh, on Tuesday, turned only the second Indian to earn the Candidates event given that Viswanathan Anand in 2014 and will problem the earth winner Ding Liren of China in November for the Globe Championship title.