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18 year-old indian Gukesh just beat Ding Liren and became world chess champion!

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ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 1:21 pm 18 year-old indian Gukesh just beat Ding Liren and became world chess champion!

Interestingly, Gukesh is not even the highest ranked Indian by elo..Arjun is ranked higher,and ofcourse Carlsen is higher too..Gukesh is #5 in the world but his elo was higher than the reigning worldchampion's...well well, elo is not perfect but it did predict who would win this particular encounter...

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