Gukesh Dommaraju

World Youth Chess Championships Under-12 (2018)

Dommaraju Gukesh, better known as D. Gukesh, is the third-youngest person in history to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in March 2019. Gukesh won the U-9 section of the Asian School Chess Championships in 2015 and the World Youth Chess Championships in 2018 in the U-12 category. He also won five gold medals at the 2018 Asian Youth Chess Championships, in the U-12 individual Rapid and Blitz, U-12 team Rapid and Blitz, and the U-12 individual classical formats. He is India's youngest grandmaster as of 2021. He won the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, Gelfand Challenge in June 2021.