18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest person to be crowned chess’s world champion. Dommaraju broke a record set by Russia’s Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he first became world ...

At 18, Gukesh became the youngest-ever world chess champion, defeating Ding Liren in the decisive 14th game in Singapore to claim a 7.5-6.5 victory. Kasparov, who held the record for youngest ...

If Kasparov won, it would be confirmation that times were changing, that something fresh and exciting and terrifying was coming. But to be abandoned, without a winner, after 48 grueling games?

Gukesh Dommaraju, the 18-year-old chess prodigy from India ... a record previously held by Garry Kasparov, who became world champion in 1985 at age 22. Dommaraju secured the win Thursday in ...

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Perhaps best known for his famous chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer in the late 1990s, Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the Soviet Union at the ...