‘The era of youngsters officially begins today’: Chess fraternity reacts to Gukesh going ahead of Viswanathan Anand in rankings | Chess News

Chess fraternity has showered praise on 17-year-old Gukesh D, who went past Viswanathan Anand to became India’s top-ranked chess player.

Gukesh D has just surpassed Viswanathan Anand as India’s highest rated chess player. He is also now #9 in the world.
What a sensation. The future of chess geniuses resides in India. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/VWITeyKbwg
— GothamChess (@GothamChess) August 3, 2023
Gukesh, who only broke into the top 100 in April last year, will end the month as the top-ranked Indian after his victory over Mradin Iskandrov in the second round of the FIDE World Cup at Baku.

Absolutely Proud! We started off with one GM , one World Champion and now we have two top ten players. Congratulations to the generation of Indian talent especially to our new No.1 @DGukesh ! https://t.co/0I5Nf3kXgj
— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) August 4, 2023
As Anand pointed had pointed out earlier, it was inevitable that someone would eventually catch up to him. The five-time world champion, who has eased off from playing in the world championship cycle events in recent years has lauded his protege’s achievement.

“Absolutely Proud! We started off with one GM , one World Champion and now we have two top ten players. Congratulations to the generation of Indian talent especially to our new No.1 @DGukesh!,” Anand wrote on Twitter.

Thanks a lot for all the support,guidance and blessings sir🙏 https://t.co/l7o9zQBAuJ
— Gukesh D (@DGukesh) August 4, 2023
Gukesh’s trainer GM Vishnu Prasanna, who was also India’s 33rd grandmaster, said his ward destined to do great things.

Congrats to @DGukesh on entering the world top 10 in live ratings. One of his major major milestones set at the beginning of the year has been accomplished. As always the boy is in a hurry to do great things!.
— Vishnu Prasanna (@vishnusocials) August 2, 2023
He wrote on Twitter,”Congrats to @DGukesh on entering the world top 10 in live ratings. One of his major major milestones set at the beginning of the year has been accomplished. As always the boy is in a hurry to do great things!.”

In August 2021, 15-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh was ranked 311 in the world. August 2022 he was 38th. Today he entered the top-10 in the live rankings. https://t.co/Tn3niUMnRl pic.twitter.com/rS5TncMqxn
— Olimpiu Di Luppi (@olimpiuurcan) August 2, 2023

An amazingly wonderful and much awaited news! This young man, @DGukesh is going to give 🇮🇳Indians lots of reasons to rejoice and enjoy his exploits in World Chess. Bravo, Gukesh. You have made us all proud! Keep going strong!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 https://t.co/JqdCgXFvWw
— Dr. Sanjay Kapoor, AICF President (@SnjKpr) August 3, 2023
Chess coach RB Ramesh, who is training another child prodigy R Praggnanandhaa, credits Gukesh’s sucess to Viswanathan Anand and says the Indian chess owes the five-time world champion a lot.

Hearty Congratulations to @DGukesh , his family and his coaches for creating hory today! The era of youngsters officially begins today in India. What a role model they have had all these decades in @vishy64theking Indian chess owes a lot to him 🙏.
— Ramesh RB (@Rameshchess) August 3, 2023
“Hearty Congratulations to @DGukesh, his family and his coaches for creating hory today! The era of youngsters officially begins today in India. What a role model they have had all these decades in @vishy64theking Indian chess owes a lot to him ,” Ramesh wrote on Twitter.

Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra group has praised the teenager and said it is a strange feeling that someone has overtaken Vishwanathan Anand and predicted that the teenager may go all the way to secure the No 1 position.

Bravo, @DGukesh ! This pic with you as well as the few moves you ALLOWED me to play against you will be hugely valuable parts of my archive of memories…. May you rise to be the World’s Numero Uno… And @vishy64theking , it must feel strange to have someone overtake you, but how… https://t.co/ACTle6kzaJ pic.twitter.com/BMhr3MHnQn
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 3, 2023
“Bravo, @DGukesh! This pic with you as well as the few moves you ALLOWED me to play against you will be hugely valuable parts of my archive of memories…. May you rise to be the World’s Numero Uno… And @vishy64theking, it must feel strange to have someone overtake you, but how satisfying that it’s someone YOU inspired to play the game!,” he said.