The 18-year-old Gukesh's triumph was celebrated far and wide across the country with the PM joining the sports fraternity and others in lauding his incredible achievement.
The image of a smiling D Gukesh standing with outstretched hands will forever be embossed in the memory of a nation of billions.
The world's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
D Gukesh admires the way charismatic former India skipper MS Dhoni and iconic tennis player Novak Djokovic
The two meet in the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament that gets underway later on Wednesday.
The Indian ace is now placed second with Kasparov and Leko, behind Kramnik, at Linares.
The draw gave the Rest of the World victory over Armenia in the Tigran Petrosian chess match.\n\n
Kasparov leads the six-game Man versus Machine contest by half a point.
The Indian men's team got off to another 3-0 start, led by Dommaraju Gukesh's triumph over H Stefansson of Iceland, in the second round.
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.
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.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a disappointing final round loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to finish joint eighth in the St Louis Rapid Chess tournament in St Louis, on Thursday.
Kasparov, who got 379 of 498 votes at a national congress of the Other Russia coalition, has been instrumental in uniting liberals, leftists and nationalists who are opposed to President Vladimir Putin.
Former world champion Garry Kasparov has announced his retirement from competition chess, according to Spanish media reports.
'You need hard work along with talent to reach exceptional heights.'
Deft moves by chess legend Garry Kasparov gave him a decisive upper hand against long-time rival Anatoly Karpov in the first set of a 12-game re-match in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday.
Former World chess champion turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov has asked Latvian politicians to grant him citizenship to help him pursue his political activities in Russia.
Hundreds of students from the Velammal Vidyalaya, the school where Gukesh studies, lined up at the airport at least one hour before his flight landed to greet the 17-year-old chess prodigy.
Viswanathan Anand went for an all out kill but had to settle for a draw as his efforts were thwarted by some brilliant defensive tactics by Garry Kasparov at Linares.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Gukesh won't challenge Liren on home turf; Singapore wins bid for World Championships match
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
The 47-year-old former World champion is taking some time off before he gets down to tournament play in St. Louis, United States, where the focus would be on Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov, who is making a surprise return to the game.
The world champion wants Garry Kasparov to come back from retirement so that he can play one more game against the Russian.
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".
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Framcisco Pons Vallejo in the fifth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
A blunder by the world No. 1 chess players allowed the computer to win the second game of the four-game match in New York.
What he could not achieve during his chess playing days, legendary Garry Kasparov has done now by being included in 'Time 100' list of most influential people for the year 2007.
Chess legends Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov reignite one of the greatest rivalries in the history of chess this week with a re-match of their classic 1984 world championship contest.
With this victory over the computer programme, the world no 1 is still in contention in the four-game match.
The triumph entitles Gukesh a clash against reigning world champion Ding Liren of China in the last quarter of the year.
There will be no chessboard and no pieces when world No. 1 Garry Kasparov plays the latest man vs machine contest.
India has submitted its bid to host the much-anticipated World Chess Championship clash between teen sensation D Gukesh and defending champion Ding Liren of China in November-December this year.
Caruana became the sole leader and also got back to number two in live world rankings.
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