MAMALLAPURAM: Grandmaster D Gukesh is on a giant-killing spree. The 16-year-old youngster registered his 8th successive victory at the ongoing 44th Olympiad on Saturday as World No. 5 and 2018 World championship challenger Fabiano Caruana lost to him in 45 moves.
In previous rounds, Gukesh had beaten the likes of Alexei Shirov from Spain and Armenia’s Gabrial Sargissian among others. Gukesh’s win against Caruana not only helped him overtake P Harikrishna as India No. 2 but also rise to No. 20 in the live FIDE world rankings.
