18-year-old India's D Gukesh becomes the youngest world chess champion

India's D Gukesh became the youngest world chess champion at the age of 18 by clinching the World Chess Championship in Singapore. He beat Ding Liren, the defending world champion. Gukesh is India's second world chess champion after Viswanathan Anand. Anand won the title on five separate occasions.

The previous world record was held by the great Garry Kasparov who defeated fellow great Anatoly Karpov at the age of 22 to become world champion in 1985.

Gukesh managed to seal the requisite 7.5 points against 6.5 of Liren after securing victory in the last classical time control game of the 14-game match that looked like a draw.

Gukesh started the championship by sustaining a loss in the opening round but then the Indian grandmaster made a brilliant comeback to level the final in the third round. Earlier, Gukesh made it to the World Championship after winning the Candidates tournament earlier this year.

"It's the best day of my life," Gukesh said after the win.  The young chess player has been in the dream form of his career as earlier he guided India to a historic gold in the Chess Olympiad earlier this year.