With seven rounds left at Linares, the Indian ace will have to tackle his black pieces well and score at least two victories with white.
Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko, ended their third round clash in just 24 moves in the Linares 2005 Super GM Chess Tournament.
'I am truly grateful to him and wouldn't have been close to what I am now if it wasn't for him.'
Gukesh follows in the footsteps of Anand, the only other Indian to win the Candidates
The image of a smiling D Gukesh standing with outstretched hands will forever be embossed in the memory of a nation of billions.
The victory put the Indian ace in second place, behind Garry Kasparov, in the Linares chess tournament.
If Gukesh prevails in the end, he would break the current record set by the legendary Garry Kasparov, who became world champion at the age of 22 in 1985.
It's not entirely true that advanced economies are suffering because of technological stagnation rather than a financial meltdown.
Kramnik, 43, made waves in 2000 when he defeated defending champion Garry Kasparov at the World Championship. Currently ranked seventh by the World Chess Federation, he became the undisputed world champion in 2006.
Caruana became the sole leader and also got back to number two in live world rankings.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand suffered a jolt in his title defence as he lost to his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow.
World champion Viswanathan Anand continued to reign supreme bagging the Chess Oscar for the sixth time and becoming the first non-Russian to do so. Anand received the award from International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov before the start of the President's Cup.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played an easy draw with black against Spaniard Alexei Shirov while Vladimir Kramnik of Russia drew first blood defeating Elo favourite Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the first round of Bilbao final masters in Bilbao, Spain, on Sunday.
After playing exhaustive chess for over three decades, Viswanathan Anand has assured himself a place in the league of all time greats as he retained the World Championship crown with consummate ease against Veselin Topalov in his own den in Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday.
Anand (4150 points) won by one of the biggest margins in recent times as he finished 1575 points ahead of his nearest rival, Peter Svidler (2575).
The Indian ace, with 2774 points moved to second place, while Vladimir Kramnik dropped to third in the the latest FIDE list.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand took an early lead by winning the first game of the rapid match against former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in Bastia, France on Sunday.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov held Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the fourth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand had another disappointing final day as the Indian finished on ninth spot in the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz Chess tournament, a part of the Grand Chess tour.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand had another bad outing, drawing seven and losing two games, to remain on joint eighth place after the end of nine rounds of blitz in the St. Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament in St. Louis, United States.
Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.
While Garry Kasparov stretched his lead to a full point over Topalov in the 9th round of the 22nd Linares super Grandmasters' tournament.
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh, 18, has claimed a historic victory over defending World Champion Ding Liren in the 14th game of the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Thursday.
The Indian chess ace won the Morelia-Linares title and will thus attain top ranking in April.
The triumph entitles Gukesh a clash against reigning world champion Ding Liren of China in the last quarter of the year.
With two more rounds remaining, both Anand and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia have amassed six points from their ten games.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
The Indian ace remains in second spot in the Linares Super Grandmasters' tournament, behind Garry Kasparov.
The Indian ace set up a third straight win for the Rest of the World against Armenia.
Chess will crown a new world champion when Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren begin their battle on Sunday.
Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa, Erigaisi and Vaishali have trained at the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA) that the bespectacled chess wizard set up four years ago in Chennai. The 18-year-old Gukesh and the 19-year-old Praggnanandhaa have often stated that they would not be where they are without "Vishy sir".
A title match requires months of preparation and pulling out of other events, putting together a team of seconds, etc. Carlsen just says he lacks the motivation to do this again.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand will lead India's charge at the online Nations Cup beginning on Tuesday, where some of the world's best players will face off amid the coronavirus pandemic which has thrown the sporting calendars out of gear. The six-team event, touted to the richest online team tournament, features all the big names in the game with World champion Magnus Carlsen being the only big gun missing from the line-up.
Seventh-round loss gave me energy, motivation to aim for title: Gukesh
'You need hard work along with talent to reach exceptional heights.'
Gukesh's journey wasn't easy as his family dug into their savings and also turned to crowd-funding to fuel his dream.
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